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Hills & a Home. Cardigan's Headmaster William Brewster, 53, also runs a conventional prep school near by (Kimball Union Academy). Two years ago a friend, Dartmouth Alumnus Harold ("Hap") Hinman, took him to see a deserted estate near Canaan, N.H., with Canaan Street Lake at its doorstep and the New Hampshire hills at its back. To help Brewster and Hinman start their school, Dartmouth College, which owned the estate, sold it to them for next to nothing. Well-to-do New Englanders (among them: Vermont's U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the Boston & Maine's President Edward...
...onus of responsibility for the declining standard of a Harvard undergraduate education cannot be laid at any one doorstep. But perhaps part of it is inherent in the ad hoc committee system of appointments, and the yardstick employed in those appointments. Under the present method of appointments, a particular Department within the Faculty which possesses a vacancy enjoys only the power of making a recommendation for the vacancy, which must finally be approved or disapproved by a secret, Administration-selected, ad hoc committee of scholars most of whom are drawn from other universities. Such a committee visits Harvard...
...automobile from the Russian Kommandatura was supposed to come for them at five o'clock. For an hour the three nervous churchmen, their long, greying beards straggling down the breasts of their black gowns, shifted from one foot to the other on their doorstep. The car arrived at 6:30. They still had no passports. In fact, they had never received the written invitation from the Patriarch. But they had had several telephone calls from the Kommandatura's suave Colonel Alexander Tulpanov, telling them that the Patriarch was awaiting them impatiently...
...About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away. Its roar was heard more than 400 miles...
...Umberto Pessina, was walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...