Word: conway
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MONDAY, Oct. 1 -- Joba J. Conway, Master of Leverett House since 1957, announced that he will leave the University in June. He plans to return to his native Canada, after spending several months visiting England...
...Conway disclosed recently that he had made long-range plans for one other major physical undertaking: to tear up the road between McKinlock Hall and Memorial Drive, converting the land into an open lawn. There were no funds available for the project however...
While a graduate student, Conway won the University's Jay Prize, given annually for the best work on British or American institutions. He won the prize for his doctoral dissertation on the group of pre-World War I Englishmen who first shaped the idea of the modern Commonwealth...
...departure of John J. Conway at the end of this year will leave open the Mastership of the College's largest House, and the one that last spring received the highest number of applications from the freshman class. But in 1957, when Conway took the position, the number of first choice Leverett applications was rumored to be less than a dozen, and the House's physical set-up was perhaps the least attractive in the College...
There were two major changes during Conway's Mastership, together accounting for the great increase in popularity. The first project was to renovate completely the House dining hall, removing all traces of the old one except the solid silver chandeliers, valued at $35,000 each...