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Another fire early Saturday morning caused several thousand dollars damage at the Lampoon building. This blaze destroyed a fifteenth-century fireplace and damaged a wall. The caretaker of the building had tried to extinguish the fire, but it broke out again and attracted the attention of a passing policeman at about 7 a.m. The fireplace may be reconstructed, "but it will be very expensive," Perry M. Smith '59, president of the Lampoon, commented...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...week later, at Hamburg, the lightweights did not do so well against stiff Continental competition. An unfamiliar boat and a strange course hampered the crew. But the important victory had been gained. For the fifteenth time in the last seventeen years, an American crew toted home the yard-high Thames Challenge Cup, established just 90 years...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Royal Regatta at Henley on Thames | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...claiming in Tuesday's editorial column that "an English or Humanities course on the Old Testament would certainly serve a far more significant purpose than such offerings as Scottish Border Ballads of the Fifteenth Century," you have offended many of us undergraduate balladry enthusiasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BORDER BALLAD | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

...course on the Old Testament is desperately needed, for no new course is ever so important as that. But it seems clear that an English or Humanities course on the Old Testament would certainly serve a far more significant purpose than such offerings as Scottish Border Ballads of the Fifteenth Century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring On the Old | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

...nozzles of rocket motors. The Thompson company says that a laminated layer of Astro-lite two-tenths of an inch thick can protect the nose of an IRBM. For an ICBM, which enters the atmosphere much faster, four inches may be needed. This thickness weighs, says Thompson, only one-fifteenth as much as a heat-resistant metal used for the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot-Spot Plastic | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

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