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Miss Johnson, who was 92, was one of the oldest Radcliffe alumnae. A Bursar of the College in the 1890's, she lived most of her life on Phillips Place, around the corner from the Radcliffe Yard...
Through the use of the new plastic bursar's cards, Harvard students for the first time will be able to check reserve books out of the Radcliffe library over night. The new cards, which have been issued to both Harvard and Radcliffe students, now serve as library cards in Lamont, Widener, and the Radcliffe library...
...recognizable pattern on the various narrative fragments. Arthur Brown, to take only one other example, has suddenly sprouted a Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their function is minor and wholly comic. The other figures are inadequately drawn and only sketchily donnish...
...ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard, but the terms of reinstatement outrage the implacably" anti-Establishmentarian Laura (Howard rather implausibly leaves his wife at this point), and the fact of reinstatement disgusts the right-wing bursar, who abominates "such men." To C.P. Snow, both characters symbolize the extremists of the world who keep the men of good will from achieving global harmony...
Once one has transgressed beyond the confiscated bursar's card, the College has six degrees of disciplinary action. They...