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While the smoke of musketry wreathed Bunker Hill,* a young man sat working in a library a few miles away. Two days later, he confessed to his diary that "amid all the terrors of battle, I was so busily engaged in Harvard Library that I never even heard of the engagement . . . until it was completed." Last week summer students, hunched over tables in the isolated quiet of Harvard's Widener reading room, were equally oblivious to the roar outside the windows. The roar came from bulldozers, hollowing out the foundation for a new and surprisingly modernistic annex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buried Treasure | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Then known as Breed's Hill, a smaller neighboring slope to Bunker Hill. Today both humps are lumped as Bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buried Treasure | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...looked as though all invited Western European countries would accept. Cried Ernie Bevin at a London Fourth of July celebration: "Thank you for defeating us and producing as a result the wonderful United States of America. You can have your Revolution, your Bunker Hills and your Yorktowns, but nothing will ever separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Dawn | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Prior to speeches by the two University officials, and Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, and Dean C. Sidney Burwooell, of the Medical School, Ralph Lowell '12, a Boston bunker, was elected president of the organization for the ensuing year, succeeding John S. Fleek '15, of St. Louis, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. '20, also of Boston, was chosen treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Clubs Hear Conant, Bender Talks | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, as Mrs. Tancred; J. Bradley Cuming 3rd '46 as Jerry Devine; Robert Lubchansky '48 as Charlie Bentham; Robert L. Wechsler '49 as an irregular mobilizer; Palmer Dixon '50 and Robert Claflin '50 as two irregulars; Dixon as a coal block vender; Arthur S. Bunker, Jr. '49 as a sewing machine man and a furniture removal man; Jay Levine '50 as a furniture removal man; Anna A. Prince, Radcliffe '48 and Lorn Slocombe as neighbors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC 'Juno' Hits Boards of Pudding Club Tonight as Five Day Run Opens | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

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