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...would be a better Professor of Applied Golfing Tactics than Mr. Ben Hogan, recently retired world's champion professional golfer? Mr. Hogan could give his students skull practice in Burr A, set up a driving range in Memorial Hall, a putting green in Houghton's rotunds, and practice chip shots into the balcony from the first floor of the Union. With such a difficult course to learn on and such unexcelled instruction, there's no telling where Mr. Hogan's students would end up. They might even be President...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

While past-President Truman was generating heat in California, Presidential Hopeful Harriman was setting forth on a chilly, overcast morning in Mclntosh, Ala. (near the spot where New Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Together Again | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Miles combines the duties of Dean of Special Students and Counsellor of Foreign Students. He is also Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House and a lecturer in Government. His assistant in the Special Student office is Miss Phyllis Henry, who, according to Miles, "knows everything about our problems here." Before 1916, any students who were not working toward degrees were handled by the college, but since then, and especially since World War II, increased enrollment of foreign students has increased the importance of the office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grinding, But Not for a Degree | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

Eric Pawley, speaking yesterday at a conference of the Institute's New England Regional Council in Allston Burr Lecture hall, proposed a strong liaison between educators and architects for future secondary school construction. "Educational equipment and methods of construction are the concern of school administrators," he continued, "but they are the professional responsibility of the architect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architect Claims Plans for Schools Must be Flexible | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

Twenty-four hours after Kirkland House announced its experimental program of tutorial for concentrators in science, Zeph Stewart, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House disclosed that a smaller program in his House was being expanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams to Follows Kirkland's Lead In Strengthening Science Tutorial | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

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