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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prefacing his remarks with this cogent query, one of Wellesley's finest last night launched into an extended commentary on statutory law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with special emphasis on rules relating to traffic control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men of Force Take Sophist View Watching Crimson Roll | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Committee Chairman W. A. Douglas, in his defensive explanation, has keynoted the finest in totalitarian thought in his epic statement: "We have no objections to the Crockers personally, other than that they are not white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...University Hall. The whole building was designed by Charles Bulfinch, class of 1781 and the greatest American architect of the times, but utility and the budget limited him through most of the job. In the chapel he had a free hand and the result was one of his finest creations, according to the word of contemporary experts. At any rate, it was the chief meeting place of the college, and was always much in use during big celebrations such as Class Day and Exhibition Day. Dignitaries from the outside world, including La Fayette, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson, frequently were...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: Circling the Square | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

...Finest in the East," members of the University Band decided yesterday, was their own sobriquet, and not to be extended, even by implication to the malt liquor brow manufactured by the Crofts Ale Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slogan War Looms as Band Members Attack Hucksters | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...waking mind that made it than the night world of humanity and the mythic "nightmare of history" from which Joyce as a young man said he wished to awake. Critics may wonder if Finnegans Wake is not a huge, jesting and virtuoso footnote to Joyce's simplest and finest poem, Ecce Puer, written soon after his father died and his grandson Stephen was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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