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...stay at the Seminar ought to make ridiculous), we would like it known that we disagres completely with the specific reported sentiments. We found the Germans, as a group, neither more nor less obstinate and neither easier nor harder to get along with than any one of the other fifteen nationalities whose members were present...
...Fifteen minutes later, when Fenton swung into his final approach, visibility had dropped to one-sixteenth of a mile, a blanket of fog and smoke still hugged the ground. Fenton chose to go around. What was the weather at nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport? Visibility ten miles, ceiling unlimited. That was the last the tower heard from Fenton. The big plane roared over the field, slashed into a stand of fir trees, and fell, flaming, in an open lot outside the city...
Because it has never shied from an experiment, the Littauer School of Public Administration has become one of the University's more successful graduate schools. In its fifteen years, it has tailored its program to fit the needs of bigger government, tried to produce administrators who would shake some lead out of the feet of bureaucracy. But in the shuffle of change and growth, one of the School's very first experiments, the Littauer Fellowships, has lost much of its size, importance, and original purpose...
...slightly comical rhinos, which took the assemblage largely by surprise, must have evoked strong words both pro and con. Only two statements have survived these fifteen years. George B. Agassiz, Chairman of the Corporation in that year, was reticent at first, but finally said, "they are perfectly stunning and make a most impressive entrance to the building...
...between classes study place. Now, in this period, students can step into a library, pull a book from the shelf and spend an hour or two on it. Without the divisional library he would have a choice of either taking a chance at Widener's front desk, with a fifteen minute wait, or going off to Lamont, with an incomplete collection. Radcliffe students, who now spend much of their time in the Emerson libraries, would not even have this alternative...