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Contrary to the statement made yesterday by Professor Ralph A. Burns of Dartmouth College, the majority of Harvrd history teachers do not go to Cape Cod during the summer, few have written high school textbooks, and all of them deny any conspiracy to keep hiden from the American public the facts of Canadian, Russian, and South American history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORISON, BUCK LAUGH OFFDARTMOUTH CHARGE | 11/12/1941 | See Source »

...sunshine vitamin, is the only one which the body is known to synthesize. Produced through exposure to sunlight, it is also found in tuna, herring, cod and halibut liver oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin Powwow | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Shakespearian scholar, toughest and most beloved of professors, who for 40 years gave English 2 died on July 23 of a heart ailment at his summer home on Cape Cod...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Kitty", Famed Shakespeare Scholar, Was Individualist | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Professor George Lyman Kittredge's last exit was unstagy. He died peacefully in bed in his Cape Cod summer home at Barnstable, at 81. But Harvard men will remember him for his studied, perfectly timed classroom entrances and exits, his imperious walking stick, his haughty, traffic-stopping marches across Harvard Square, his pearl-grey suits and wing collars, his snowy beard (which he kept so, according to legend, by dippings in laundry bluing). One day (also according to legend) he presented himself, magnificently dressed and bearded, at a Beacon Hill mansion for tea. The girl who opened the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kitty's Last Exit | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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