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...Catlett Marshall addressed the first postwar Commencement at Harvard. This is the story of his epochal speech. morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
Half & Half. Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned the subject matter that made him famous - woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the brook in the back pasture, the tang in autumn air at apple-picking time - and he no longer attempts the lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent, remembered skill of a master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost...
Leverett House's 13-man juggernut struck first for the Crimson this after-noon, taking a 12-0 victory from Timothy Dwight College on touchdown runs by Mike Hardesty and Chuck O'Connor. In the other first-round contests. Dudley, Adams, and Lowell lost to Calhoun, Say-brook, and Pierson. The scores were...
...building the new wall. In some areas, the crews manage to seal off as much as six miles of the border a day. The fence weaves through the Hansel-and-Gretel-like Harz Mountain forests. Near Braunlage, I came upon two miserably wet East German guards standing alongside the brook that separates the two zones. From my side of the barbed wire, I offered them a cigarette and then a drink from a pocket flask. "Ja, bitte," they said, and I threw both cigarettes and flask across the brook and barrier...
Good lanterns, say Japanese landscape gardeners, must have a "built-in" feel of age, restraint, and a special beauty known as shibui. Placing one in a garden is a matter of the most delicate importance: it must stand beside a pond or brook, where its reflection will be seen by garden strollers "at exactly the right moments and in the right angles." One problem facing Professor Honoso, who arrives at Hyannisport early next month to personally supervise the installation of the gift lanterns: the Kennedy compound has neither ponds nor brooks...