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P:Only a few days after opening a mammoth $102 million building and endowment program, New York University announced that it was off to an unexpectedly quick start. It had just received $1,500,000 for a new student center for its Bronx campus. Donor: Frank Jay Gould, '99, son of the financier, whose family has already made possible Gould Hall, Gould Memorial Library, and much of the Hall of Fame.

P:Highbrow gobbledygook of the week (from Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, by Professor Carlos Baker of Princeton University): "Despite the insistent, denotative matter-of-factness at the surface of the presentation, the subsurface activity of A Farewell to Arms is organized connotatively around two poles. By a process of accrual and coagulation, the images tend to build round the opposed concepts of Home and Not-Home. Neither, of course, is truly conceptualistic; each is a kind of poetic intuition, charged with emotional values and woven, like a cable, of many strands . . ."

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