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...emergency investiture. Traditionally, the Dalai Lama waits for his 18th birthday before formally assuming power. By staging the ceremony two years ahead of schedule, Lhasa's theocrats seemed to be preparing for the worst. They closed the regency of septuagenarian Takta Rimpoche, abbot of Tiger Rock Monastery. They bolstered the spiritual position of the Dalai Lama should he be forced to leave Lhasa for exile abroad and should the Communists try to install a rival on his throne...
Charles A. Coolidge '17, a Boston attorney, was selected for the Corporation in 1935 after a term on the Board of Overseers. He is the son of a founder of the architectural afirm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, which has designed much of modern Harvard, including the Houses, Memorial Church, the Indoor Athletic Building, and Lamont Library...
Harvard Hymn, by John Knowles Paine '69; Glorious Aplie, by Webbe (written for the first glee club, London, 1790); Tenebrae Factac Sunt, by Ingegneri, Bacchanal, by Cocchi, from Apollonian Harmony; Marching to Pretoria (South African Veldt song), arranged by Ruth E. Abbot; Magdlein lm Waide, by Dvorak (Czech Folk Song, Op. 43, No. 3, 1877); Gaudemus, College Medley, arranged for the Glee Club by William F. Russell...
...story building of red-brick and limestone facing has been designed along the lines of Lamont Library by the Boston firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbot, which also did Lamont...
...creature with five lives," said the Abbot...