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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them are anxious to take some popular reference book out overnight. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the missing volume. Some of these men go so far as to sit on a book all afternoon so as to be sure of having it later on. There is no need of explaining why such practices as these are disgraceful. Inasmuch, however, as some students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentlemen, Sit Not on Books | 3/3/1955 | See Source »

Arbitrary as such a plan might appear, it remains the best method for attaining a system of Houses individually balanced but still distinctive. Housemasters should quickly stop attempts to reach President Lowell's ideal with halfway measures and drop the preferential system of Houses assignment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dropping Preferential House Admissions | 3/1/1955 | See Source »

...primary purpose of the test programs is to train WGBH's staff for television. Rader noted, however, that they will also "give experience in TV production to groups which might appear on the station after normal broadcasting starts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH-TV Starts Test Program Series Today | 3/1/1955 | See Source »

...Tallulah's visit in the capital, however, was marked by such sweetness and light wit. Another Washington visitor, Britain's bodkin-tongued Lady Astor, was invited to share a platform with Actress Bankhead as a fellow guest of honor. Nancy Astor replied that she would never appear anywhere with "that perfectly horrible woman . . . I'm repelled by her!" Upon hearing of ex-M.P. Astor's unparliamentary affront, Tallulah snorted: "She probably disapproves of me as much as I do of her, the bitchy old hypocrite!" Urged to tone down her statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...resident of Adams House as an undergraduates, Bersohn does not appear to have left an impression on the Deans, Contacted last night, Crester A Hanford, professor of Government and previous Dean of the College, could think of nothing to single him out from other students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red China Expels 'Brainwashed' Graduate After Spy Imprisonment | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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