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...Officer Training Crop and my experiences as a student at this University. I visited the United States Naval Academy in June of 1990, and stayed there for a week. I attended classes with other participants in this program ate meals in King Hall with Academy midshipmen and slept in Bancroft Hall, the largest single dormitory in the country--4,400 students under one roof with miles of corridors...

Author: By Koma B. Gandy, | Title: Proud To Be Harvard ROTC | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

...your date right where you want him/her--at Bancroft Tower. With this medieval tower that was built in the 1940s behind you and the city in front of you, you are in a prime location for some Valentine's Day parking...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: VALENTINE'S DAY IN WORCESTER | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...woke up at 5:00 a.m. today and stood outside the Swatch store," said Jeff Bancroft, president of the club. "I purchased a vintage watch and three special packages...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Swatch Dealers, Wearers Get Time of Day at Charles Hotel | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...addition to a distinguished teaching career, Boorstin was a prolific writer. His works include more than 20 books on American history and politics. In 1959, he received the Bancroft Award for his writing on the American colonial experience, and in 1966, he wrote a book on America's national experience that won him acclaim as recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: 14 to Receive Honorary Degrees | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...KEEP ROOTING FOR AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE. The PBS series is television's only regular outlet for serious, original works of American drama. Too often, however, what you get is windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 18, 1992 | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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