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John Harvard passed his 333rd birthday quietly in his Charlestown gave yesterday. The anniversary was practically unnoticed in the busy university which bears his name...
...intrigue, massacres, exile, and there is the usual restrained Roberts love story. There are also great scenes: the headlong flight by sea of thousands of tory refugees and British troops from Boston; the heroic stupidity of the repeated British frontal attacks at Bunker Hill, seen through tory eyes from Charlestown windows and roof tops...
...time was over, dusk was falling in Boston Harbor. The U. S. destroyer Aaron Ward backed out of her pier and headed into the Atlantic. Behind, in a single grey file, trailed the A.P. Upshur and the Hale. Motorists on the Charlestown Bridge and idlers in North End Park honked, cheered, waved. Off for Canada and World War II were the first of 50 destroyers which the U. S. Navy last week gave up to the British...
...that two thirds of the Senior Class took a drink at least once a week. Boston and Cambridge have almost as many bars as colleges. Unfortunately, they close early--one on weekday nights, twelve on Saturdays. If you want to keep on drinking, you'll have to go to Charlestown to the Stork Club, or to Revere to the Open Door, where you pay proportionately more. In Cambridge, the rowdy Stag Club (no membership dues) stays open an hour beyond the legal limit...
...Brooks House is probably the greatest mystery and the least understood organization in the Yard. To the three hundred undergraduates who take part in it each year, it is a community service organization providing opportunities in everything from directing educational radio programs to leading a boys' club in a Charlestown settlement house...