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...exhibition of 171 paintings and prints had been sponsored by the government of Munch's native Norway. Split last week between Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, it will later tour the country for a year. The pictures deal mostly with sex and death, and some mid-century sophisticates may find them overdramatic. But others will take off their hats to them...
...Rochester church's approximately 50 members were in favor of the split. Actually they had been working up to it ever since 1943, when two Rochester board members published pamphlets under the pseudonym "Paul Revere," reviving an old controversy over whether the Mother Church should operate under the Deed of Trust left by Founder Mary Baker Eddy. The deed, they argued, would have had the effect of making branch churches independent of the Mother Church in Boston...
...members were "excommunicated" by the Mother Church's board of directors. This, the Rochester Scientists decided, was the final stroke in a pattern of "increasingly despotic control" from Boston. By week's end the directors of the Mother Church had not made a formal statement on the split. But the Rochester dissenters happily announced that they had already received a flood of approving mail from Christian Scientists all over...
...came up this year with an acceptable substitute for Payson Wild, who left for Northwestern last year. Bundy conducted the ever-popular 170, International Law, and 185, the U. S. in World Politics; but the preliminary catalogue lists no 1950-51 instructor for this pair. Emerson, Hopper, and Cheever split up the rest of a somewhat pedestrian selection...
...ensure the Council's return to an advisory function, the new constitution might split the Council into two groups, one to take over service functions, the other to handle advising. The service group could be elected in the same way as the present Council; it would give local politicians a comfortable opportunity to keep their names in front of the College. This elected body could appoint the considerably less glamorous advisory group, and there is good recent evidence that an elective council can make its appointments reasonably non-political. But whatever the mechanics of the new constitution, it should establish...