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Thomas Jefferson founded his University of Virginia for men, but he believed also that women should have "a solid education." Henceforth the University will have girl liberal arts students-but the Charlottesville boys will have to travel 55 miles to Fredericksburg to fetch them to a german. The University last week annexed Fredericksburg's Mary Washington College, named for George Washington's mother, the largest women's college in the State (1,528 students). Formerly a teachers' training school, Mary Washington will specialize in the liberal arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Girls for Germans | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Bike. Robinson's men can do a swift and objective job of reporting. When the 45th first went into action in Sicily, its News .staff went along. Mauldin cycled to beachhead ships to fetch news from their radios and personal experiences of the men. Result: first Allied invasion edition in Sicily, a hand-pressed single sheet. Moving up, the News soon had another extra, delivered by ration box. The headline: "Benito Finite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Star-Spangled Banter | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...religious service. Then he went into hiding. The Italians and Nazis were hot after him, and eight times he was forced to seek new shelter. Once he shivered: General von Arnim set up headquarters in the next villa; one night, when he slipped back to the old rectory to fetch some medicine, the Nazis moved into his refuge, and he escaped capture only because friends tipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchman Goes Underground | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Plans for practical field problems in the Statistical officers' duties are in the hatching stage. We cannot promise air-raids or strafing conditions for you to work through, but it is hoped that something akin thereto can be worked out. Quick, Albert, fetch me my tin hat, our Student Status Report in tardy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICACKLES | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

...They fetch the water and carry the towels, they handle sweaty garments and take a lot of good-natured abuse, but they love it. Harvard's athletic managers, as unique a set of characters as you would ever hope to see, go about their tasks as quietly as possible, bothering few people and haunting the H.A.A., looking for team publicity wherever they can find it--all this for a letter and major athletic credits...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Passing the Buck | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

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