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Alternative: War. To many of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers such a policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell...
Radcliffe women will forego their Vitamin A in the interest of weight reduction, according to Miss Marjorie Russ, Radcliffe dietitian. Annex dining halls now serve skim milk in response to student demand for fat-type milk...
Amalgamation would not mean scrapping the Annex's plans for its new graduate center: the buildings could simply be placed under Harvard administration, and instead of housing Radcliffe's Dean of Graduate Students, they would contain the Dean of Women in the GSAS. Superficial as these alterations may seem, they would facilitate long-needed administrative savings in a system that is more suited for the more leisurely days of 20 years...
...Churchill himself ordered the country deployed as he had for the General Strike of 1926. Government department heads designated key workers who would have to sleep on the job, and beds were installed in old wartime air-raid shelters. Department chiefs were to be housed in a massive concrete annex to the Admiralty built to be the government's last stronghold in case of a Nazi invasion. Car pools were organized (the London Underground would also stop...
...Deplorable. At the beginning, of course, the cake was largely crumbs. For its first few years under sprightly President Elizabeth Gary Agassiz, it was usually known as the "Harvard Annex." It was not until 1894 that Mrs. Agassiz finally persuaded the Massachusetts legislature to grant her a charter ("I'd like to do anything that lady wants me to do," said one legislator after her impassioned speech). But, even by that time, some Harvardmen still retained their doubts. Huffed Litterateur Barrett Wendell, when asked if his daughters would go to Radcliffe: "My daughters, sir, I hope, are ladies." Snapped...