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...years, the House was a vacant and tumbledown relie, inhabited at the close by a group of religions ascetics who wanted no more than a roof over their heads. In 1922 the last lessee of the building removed the cobwebs, burlap sacks over the fireplaces and the accumulation of fourteen layers of wallpaper and set out to make Hicks House a replica of what it was in 1762. This was done--only to have the building appropriated by a mushrooming College for its present...
During the Christmas vacation the team will swing into Ivy League competition with a round robin tournament against Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. Harvard, leading with fourteen victories in the past twenty-one contests, will seek to capture the championship cup for the fourth consecutive year...
...year course, which leads to a Master's degree, opened up this September after 32 consecutive months had been consumed on the drawing boards. Fourteen graduate students are the guinea pigs testing this new approach to the problem of learning all there is to know about an alien land and culture...
Directly in charge of the first regional studies program is John K. Fairbank, also an associate professor in the department of History. Through him passed both the master plan for the study and the elaborate five-day-a-week schedule of lectures whic his fourteen students attend...
...necessity of passing state laws governing the question of rent-control. In this way, the activities of a few selfish men in our midst will be frustrated. And in this whole problem, the Republican party has the responsibility for which it has been asking American voters for fourteen years...