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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preparing to launch its study of atomic energy, Associated Universities, Inc., the newly-formed group of nine eastern universities, has chosen Edward Reynolds '15, Vice-President of Harvard, as its first president, it was announced by Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Army's Manhattan Project for atomic development, last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vice-President of University Named Head of Committee For Study of Atomic Energy | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

...year job to become a college president at $15,000 motivated primarily by fear of hunger or desire for material gain? . . . Are college professors motivated by the carrot? The truth is more nearly that they labor for ego-satisfaction in spite of a paucity of carrots in their chosen academic course. . . . Whatever is the case for the donkey", the incentive for human behavior need not be material gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...baron Carlos Victor Aramayo came up from Argentina. Jose Antonio Arze, head of the strong P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) arrived from Santiago. Somewhere between their two groups, Bolivians might find representative government. Promised the Junta: "We will call elections and then turn over our power to a government chosen by the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Aftermath of a Coup | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Meeting in their common room last night, 35 members of Leverett House nominated four of their number as delegates from that House on the committee. Those chosen, William O. Aikman '46, Richard A. Kaye '45, Mark W. Hughes '50, and Harry Hollingshead '50, will be voted upon at dinner today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delegates Elected by Three Houses in Probe of Council | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

West, who staged last spring's HDC production of "Winterset" and has appeared at the Pasadena Playhouse as Horatio in "Hamlet" will play the title role in the Sanders Theater production. He has chosen all the other members of his cast except Claudius and The Ghost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Will Present Reading of "Hamlet" | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

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