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...fellow begins as early as 7 o'clock. The morning is sacred territory, generally reserved for the "project," the book proposed by a candidate as part of his reason for coming. Each fellow has a study with the inevitable sliding glass door leading out to a first-floor terrace or a second-floor balcony. Before noon the most delicate knock on a resident humanist's door requires supreme courage. Even the ring of a telephone constitutes a gross intrusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Corn Bread and Great Ideas | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

While Harvard's top four squashed their Army rivals on the first-floor gallery courts, the rest of the racquetmen followed suit on Hemenway's second floor...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Outgun Army, 9-0 | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...result of the Biko case, prisoners were supposed to be closely supervised to prevent suicide attempts. Kruger had ordered that interrogations must take place either in a room with barred windows or in a first-floor room, "for their sakes as well as for the credibility of the police." But the security police had only recently taken over the fifth floor of their Port Elizabeth building from a private tenant and, against orders, Tabalaza was questioned there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Yes, Again | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...University police spokesman said yesterday two or three burglars apparently entered Dana Palmer House about 3 a.m. Sunday and removed the clock, which was on loan from the Fogg Museum, from the building's first-floor hallway...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Antique Clock Is Stolen From Dana Palmer House | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...early-morning occupation of the first-floor offices in Cole Center was similar to the 1972 takeover of Massachusetts Hall by 35 Harvard students protesting Harvard's ownership of stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Hampshire Students Occupy Offices | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

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