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...loth century ambassador named Liudprand. who represented the Holy Roman Emperor in Constantinople and in the process was insulted, nearly starved, and quartered in a house with a leaking roof, which also lodged several unfriendly lions. Nearly 1,000 years later, in 1934, when U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt set up the first post-revolution U.S. embassy in Moscow, he was not troubled by lions, but otherwise, suggests Thayer, he got equivalent treatment...
...Master Bullitt says he will "encourage" students to pack up and leave his great new structure, but he will be sorely disappointed. Few, if any, wish to go to the troubles of furnishing new suites or of leaving the comforts of modern living; and since the Master has foresworn any methods smacking of coercion, he probably cannot select a certain number to move from the House into Mather. At the same time, the suggested solution of moving Quincy students into Mather from Claverly singles out a small group which should receive better rooms. Having suffered for a year in Claverly...
Filling Mather Hall with sophomores next year would be "undesirable," John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House, said yesterday. "The educational value of a House comes from a close interchange among the classes," he continued...
...Bullitt said he would encourages upper-classmen to move from the new building to Mather, but was not sure how he would do this. He stated last Fall that he will not force them to leave, but expected some would want to. He felt the idea of moving the men now in Clavely Hall into Mather "would make good sense...
Sieglaff, who had a date waiting for him, remained calm, encouraged by the assurances of John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy, that the Payne Elevator repairman, though "a little mystified" by the trouble, was doing his best to free Sieglaff, Unofficial sources credit the combine with a Dartmouth visitor Saturday and one sophomore earlier this year...