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...Albion's maiden envoy will embrace, Whose rare benevolence and natural charms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Between Friends | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Ponte, who lives in Lowell House, is a Music concentrator had has formerly studied with Jose da Costa, Boris Goldovsky, Jesus Maria Sanroma, and Albion Metcalf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ponte Makes Debut | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...course was popular. Albion points out that Princeton's history departments at the time was "comparatively sadistic," and there was only one course which gave its members a chance to relax, a doddering affair on the Westward Movement known affectionately to undergraduates as "House and Garden." Alboin felt there was room for another course which catered to the gentlemanly set. So did the gentlemen, who came out for it in large numbers. They called his course "Boats," and appeared for it bleary-eyed on Monday mornings at 8:40. "We had a hell of a good time," says Albion. Eventually...

Author: By Paul W. Mandol, | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

During the last war, Albion went to work writing the administrative history of the Navy, "following in Sam Morison's wake, a usual." Albion covered 50,000 miles, interviewed Admirals by their West Indian swimming pools, accumulated a squad of Wave secretaries, and filled 120 typescript volumes. He found the heat of Washington uncondusive to the writing up of all this material, however, and talked the Navy into moving the Waves up to his home city of Portland, Me. The stimulation of the salt air increased his productivity considerably and he shortly expects to bring out the first...

Author: By Paul W. Mandol, | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

...Albion is glad to be back at Harvard. He likes the climate, the students, and being near home. He likes the leeway given him in teaching his new course, History 168, which is also rapidly becoming known as "Boats." He likes the evidence that the enrollment of his course is growing in a geometric progression. But he thinks Mrs. Albion is most happy about the switch. "She wen't have to go south of Boston anymore...

Author: By Paul W. Mandol, | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

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