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...says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: The Ten-Gallon Stack | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Students sometimes achieve the professors' measured gait. Their motion is not produced by serene detachment but rather by sheer terror. Generally it takes about two hour exams and a paper before a young student forgets himself enough to descend that...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Steps of Widener | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Quarterback is traditionally the glamor position, but the glamor has yet to descend on Zimmerman--largely because Harvard has two sensational halfbacks from the Boston area who fill the sports columns more readily than an inexperienced foreigner from Columbus, Ohio...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Zimmerman Moves Harvard Attack Like A -!-!- Quarterback Should | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...formidable logistical problems had to be coped with. To house the conferees, the Phil ippine government planned to commandeer the gracious old Manila Hotel, flanking the bay-though Johnson and some of the other government chiefs may stay at their embassies. Caring for the 1,000 newsmen expected to descend on Manila is an even more complicated matter, as Washington belatedly realized when it came to the task of ac commodating the 200 journalists who will cover Johnson's entire tour. Hastily the White House sent summonses for help to two former White House press secretaries-James Hagerty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Pacific Mission | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Furthermore, Hilles's location should relieve Harvard men of what seems to have been their chief grounds for barring Cliffies: the fear that the girls, like locusts, will descend at 9 p.m. to pick reserve book shelves clean. It would be a rare Cliffies who would choose to trudge to Lamont just to get a book when a much more attractive building sat just a few steps outside her door. Nor would Cliffies be likely to brave the snows of January reading period to crowd the boys out of their accustomed carrels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep the Girls in Lamont | 10/6/1966 | See Source »

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