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...Eleanor Donnelley Erdman dormitory, which opened in time for this year's Bryn Mawr undergraduates to move in, is also an exercise in bold geometry. The dormitory lies in plan as three interconnected lozenges. Inside its concrete and native-slate-sided battlements, it resembles a happy dungeon whose lofty towers admit a deluge of daylight. For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms. The results made one student gasp, "Every angle hits...
Married. Tammy Grimes, 32, pixilated musical comedy star (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); and Jeremy Slate, 40, frequent second lead; both for the second time; in Beverly Hills...
...protest your unfair reporting of student criticism of Professor Haller. The criticism you quoted was the judgment of only one student, and was so presented in Slate. Slate admitted that some students had praised Haller on several counts. In fact, Slate is at some pains to make it clear that student judgments are entirely personal, and that what one student deplores, another may rave about. As graduate students of Professor Haller's, we would like to redress the balance by stating that we find him a sound, helpful teacher, and a very decent human being who has earned...
...Penitentiary into a drenching rain. "The sun is shining for me," beamed Gold. He had told the Government all about his work as a Communist spy, and had testified in 1951 as a vital Government witness in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I have wiped the slate clean as far as it is possible," he said. "I made a hideous mistake...
While harsh and sometimes cruel, student judgments do not necessarily downgrade the taskmasters. Slate contends that Assistant English Professor Joseph Kramer is "a hard grader and expects a lot from his students," yet gives him an A rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate student raves. The American University guide calls English Instructor Peter Scott "great, dynamic, interesting, interested, alert and careful when grading, the most valuable and worthy freshman English teacher at A.U." In general, the student judgments tend to be fair. "Students have a marvelous, ironic ability to see through bull," says...