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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feasting and jollity has been a feature of Commencement since earliest time (although the war has somewhat sobere the occasion--Ed.), and even in earl Harvard every Bachelor of Master 0 Arts had to pay a commencement fee 0 *3, about the equivalent of two years tuition; and it is only within (thirty years that the last commencement fee were abolished at Harvard. These fee went to pay the expenses of the commencement dinner for graduates who altended. It was felt to be a great privilege to be admitted to the society of educate men; hence students ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medieval Rituals Retained For 1944's Commencement | 6/30/1944 | See Source »

Meanwhile the trek to Chicago was on. National Chairman Harrison Spangler took up quarters at the Stevens Hotel. Dewey managers streamed out of New York; California's keynoting Governor Earl Warren boarded a special car loaded with West Coast GOPoliticos. In Chicago's cavernous stadium, 25 blocks from the Loop, workmen tacked up flags and bunting, strung 600 miles of special wire, while the genial host, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly, set up an economical sign that would serve to welcome the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eleventh Hour | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Chili Williams, LiFE-famed pin-up model now in Hollywood, was maybe nude, maybe not, when the Mrs. stormed into Artist Husband Earl Moran's Manhattan studio one hot day last summer. Pretty Mrs. Moran, suing unhappy Artist Earl for divorce, said that Chili was. Chili (via Western Union) said she wasn't: I AM SUGGESTING THAT YOU TAKE BACK YOUR RIDICULOUS STATEMENT ABOUT ME -AND FAST. . . . Wired back Mrs. Moran: I TAKE BACK NOTHING. I KNOW WOMEN'S UNDERTHINGS WHEN I SEE THEM. YOURS WERE STREWN ALL OVER THE STUDIO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran wild. Harold's father died when he was a baby, and he and his four brothers ran wild, too, returning to the house mostly for sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Nightmare's End | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Dismissal from the service, one of the stiffest penalties the Army can give an officer, is usually reserved for offenses involving moral turpitude. But a court-martial made an exception in the case of 24-year-old Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C. and cluster, Air Medal and three clusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Hero's Sentence | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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