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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the Boylston Speaking Contest will be open to all upperclassmen in the College. Selections chosen by the entrants may be passages of prose or poetry from English, Greek, or Latin literature, and should be submitted to Professor Spencer for his approval on or before February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston Contest Set for March 26; Rewards Will Be Higher Than Usual | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

Most of Author Brogan's essays feature historical figures, but, in the modern manner, the chosen figure serves equally as a peg on which Author Brogan hangs dissertations on social conditions and any lively bits of stuff that catch his eye. The essay on Marshal Bazaine, for example, is not merely a portrait of the man who lost the Franco-Prussian War, it is also a discussion of the grand tradition of French marshals, from Turenne to Rochambeau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bouillabaisse | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...quite suddenly filled with gratitude to TIME when I saw Mr. Byrnes's picture on the cover. Not that I had given a thought to who should be chosen the Man of the Year. It is just that I felt it was so right that you had chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...President was informed by letter that he had been chosen an honorary editor of the Harvard Crimson, campus newspaper. When the Crimson got a formal acknowledgement from the White House, it had to respond with some sad news: somebody had just been hoaxing the President-Crimson rules forbade honorary editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

After next month's elections, the 12 men chosen will take over the class functions. Class Day activities, the election of Class officers, and the selection of the staff of the Album will come under the aegis of the unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Nominated for 1947 Class Committee | 1/14/1947 | See Source »

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