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...number of students suffering from serious colds and flu is on the upswing, but is nowhere near epidemic proportions, Miss Rata Corbett, Stillman Infirmary superintendent, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stillman Notes Increase in Flu Cases; 40 Now Confined There | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

Other major problems are apparent. There are still no medical or infirmary facilities for women students, and the number of women in the graduate schools has been increasing each year. According to Miss Reta Corbett, Stillman superintendant, two girls did manage to lodge in the infirmary for a night each, but it was only because one whole wing was empty...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Hygiene Cures Ills and Has Its Own | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

Stillman too has its trouble. Miss Corbett and her excellent staff of 15 nurses are making the best of a bad thing. Besides its inconvenient location, the old building has not enough facilities for contagious patients. The private rooms have no running water, and there is, only one toilet a floor. The staff has no access to student's previous records which are in the Hygiene building two miles away, and doors and elevators that won't admit beds are becoming a nuisance...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Hygiene Cures Ills and Has Its Own | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...money to support a wife, a tall, 22-year-old blonde named Ellen Hunt Milton, whose brother had married John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s daughter, Abby. They were living in a small, two-room apartment in Manhattan's East 70s when Harrison's old teacher, Harvey Corbett, offered him a partnership. Harrison jumped at the chance, and for "the next four years designed a series of auditoriums and office buildings with Corbett. Architecture was almost his entire life. There was always a drawing board in his room and a pad & pencil by his bed. In the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cheops' Architect | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...ready to fight for it. He was sure he was on the winning side. Gothic and neoclassic skyscrapers were dying out in Manhattan; Hood had just designed the starkly simple Daily News Building and the equally simple-if startlingly pea-green-McGraw-Hill Building. Harrison and his partner Corbett were among the architects chosen by the Rockefellers to work on the designs for the most ambitious project of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cheops' Architect | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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