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...potential construction, renovation, purchase, demolition and other physical alterations Harvard could possibly encounter for this time period, Bose and those who worked on the plan have done a thorough and superb job. It is hard to imagine any ordinary project suddenly appearing on the horizon that has not been foretold in this report. The report, then, is more one that indicates the alternatives for future planning than one that offers a blueprint for Harvard's future physical projects...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Setting Out the Alternatives | 7/30/1974 | See Source »

...foretold you, were all spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Contemporary Bard | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Angelic films at Quincy House. Was it these cyclists Balzac foretold: "Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cashboxes for hearts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: screen | 11/15/1973 | See Source »

Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Days of the Prophet | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...more congenial atmosphere of Yale. The Crimson rebuked Lowell's antagonism to the theatre. Taking a stand in defense of architecture purity, the paper strongly attacked the building of Memorial Church, and ridiculed Lowell's House Plan. Mr. Lowell was unconvinced.The Crimson's Commencement Issue in 1914 foretold little of the Great War that began that year. The paper's campaign against President Lowell's House Plan [below] left him unconvinced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Gathers Funds for a New Home | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

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