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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casual visitor Harvard Hall doubtless seems only another agglomeralation of lecture halls, with narrow staircases and ill-lighted rooms that make it appear slightly more grotesque than some of its neighbors. Yet for fifty years this one building was the center of College life in just about every sense of the word--here for the student of seven score years ago were gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually...
...Committee has divided the money equally among Austria, Poland, Greece, and China, except for specially earmarked contributions that have been apportioned as directed, and $4000 that has been allotted to the Salzburg Student Seminar and Rest Center. Funds will be channeled immediately to the World Student Service Fund in New York, for transference abroad. The box score: Adams House $1332.96 Claverly Hall 452.00 Dunster House 1161.66 Eliot House 1353.98 Kirkland House 1139.06 Leverett House 880.17 Lowell House 1827.57 Winthrop House 1298.45 Yard 1894.35 Non-resident undergraduates 499.25 Graduate Schools 6172.64 Faculty 3044.90 Radcliffe 1204.72 Miscellaneous 338.54 Total...
Hughes summed it all up: "Everywhere, racing tongues and typewriters, trying to articulate racing hopes and fears, greeted the dramatic appearance of the U.S. in the center of the world arena with some hysteria, much hyperbole, great hope- and a perceptible shudder...
...March 11) to amend the Constitution as Washington wanted. The vote was light (about 1,000,000 out of a registered vote of 3,000,000). With returns still limping in from outlying islands, the vote was about 5-to-1 in favor of the amendment. Even in Manila, center of Philippine economic nationalism, the amendment carried nearly 3-to-1. The only excitement occurred when Philippine President Manuel Roxas got a close shave from a Manila barber, one Julio Guillén y Cuerpo. Barber Guillén pulled a hand grenade from a bag of peanuts, missed Roxas...
...about as safe now as a balloon in the hands of three five-year-olds. When it will be broken is merely a question of which of the three Varsity strong men rounds into shape quickest. Leading the triumvirate is Jack Fisher, a Senior and All-New England center for Dick Harlow last fall. The former Andover athlete who threw 168 feet in the Yale meet last spring, will now be able to turn his full attention to track. Unless Fisher breaks his leg between now and the beginning of the season, he is expected to better the present record...