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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take drastic action, such as abolishing the public school system. State Senator C. E. Yingling probably summed up the majority opinion when he said, "This would be the worst possible time to call a special session," and added that "this is the time to sit down, cool off, and act like human beings...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Newspaper Hints Faubus Will Summon Legislature | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...housewarming present, the U.S. sponsored the Congress Hall's first week's program: dedication ceremony with speeches by Clare Boothe Luce and Ambassador David K. Bruce, a Julliard String Quartet concert, a performance by Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stage for Freedom | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...corporation to provide "earnings opportunities and growth" for student representatives who solicit on University properities was announced yesterday by Dustin M. Burke '52, general manager of the organization and director of Student Employment. The corporation, the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., is designed to act as a central clearing house for all agencies which involve room-to-room solicitation...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Student Salesmen Join In Overall Corporation | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

Since the investigators were only interested in checking for violations by license-holders, they did not take action against the under-age drinkers. Purchase of liquor by minors, with or without falsified identification, is forbidden by the state Liquor Control Act, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Evidence On Liquor Sales Sent by ABC | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

...second monument in the Advocate is a translation of the third act of Moliere's The School for Wives, by James A. Matisoff. The translation seems good enough, but why the Advocate should feel it is making a contribution to Harvard literary creativity by filling nine complete pages with a Moliere play or why anyone should be interested in reading it is difficult to understand...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Advocate | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

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