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...important events which transpired there in August, 1944. Dumbarton Oaks, scene of the conference at which the foreign secretaries of the United States, Great Britain and Russia determined the basic structure of the then unborn United Nations Organization, was given to Harvard by the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned water wheel. The American Guide Series describes the house as having the "regal...
With a week left for the University Community Fund Drive to reach its $33,000 quota, Charles A. Bliss, associate professor of Business Statistics and director of the University's Fund efforts, announced yesterday that the Drive, as indicated on a six-foot poster outside Weld Hall, has passed the half-way mark with $18,000 already contributed to the coffers...
Disclosing the Student Council's contribution for undergraduates as comprising $2,000 of this total, Bliss said the remainder had come mostly from the faculty...
...such a claim could never have been made. The Gregorys tell with sympathetic amusement of the doings of highflown and boyish spirits like Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, singers of "the open road," and the feeble graces of others like Thomas Bailey Aldrich. But they recognize the "serenity, grace and lightness" of George Santayana's best verse, and properly value the authentic American nostalgia expressed by James Whitcomb Riley...
...Communist poster showed a scene of bucolic bliss, bent old shepherds with kindly faces, happy children in smocks, trim gardens, bright cottages with cream walls and strawberry roofs. Overhead hovered menacingly a black, evil-eyed eagle. The bird was labeled "Trusts"; the Red politicos claimed that any resemblance to the American eagle was purely coincidental. Last week, after scrutinizing a row of garish, importunate posters of several parties at the Porte de St. Cloud, a man in a flimsy raincoat spat eloquently, "Ça me dégoûte" (That burns me up), he said...