Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance, this year's draw bunched all these teams together and matched teams from the East, South and Midwest in the other bracket. If Harvard had won Tuesday it would have had to face one of the Western teams--probably a hard-hitting Brigham Young squad that narrowly lost to U.S.C...
...three winners are Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; Henry Allen Bullock of Texas Southern University for A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present; and Richard L. Bushman '53 of Brigham Young University for From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut...
...Somerville police hauled a Harvard undergraduate into court this week for sheltering a 14-year-old runaway girl. For allowing the girl to stay in a Somerville apartment, set up by a group of Divinity School students for runaway teenagers, instead of turning her over to police, Peter B. Brigham '70 faced charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
...technical merits of the charges were only marginally relevant--even to the judge at Brigham's hearing Thursday, who agreed not to issue a complaint if the Divinity School students and their runaways cleared out of Somerville by midnight. This enforcement of the letter of the law echoes the campaign Cambridge has waged against Avatar, and the Somerville officials' pristine distaste for those they label undesirables is particularly loathesome. Once off Somerville's streets, the runaways do cease to be Somerville's problem, but the effect of the city's action is to obstruct the efforts of those trying...
...hearing was called because of Brigham's failure to report a 14-year-old runaway girl to the Somerville police last Saturday, Fauvre said...