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Last year, fourteen students could not be accommodated by the Houses and were, consequently, sent to dorms in the Business School area for the year. It may be impossible to send excess students to Business School dorms next year, however, according to Watson, because of overcrowding there. In that event, the College will have to decide next year where to send the overflow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Will Attempt to Absorb Extra Students | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...said about the revolutionary's hero, himself, John Reed it is that he simply was not a product of any institution, let alone Harvard. He came to Cambridge in 1906, a product of a proper Eastern prep school and one of the wealthiest families in Oregon. During the fourteen years following, he had graduated, spent months in jail, become a famous American war correspondent, written several books, taken a leading part in the Russian revolution, been elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, died of typhus in Russia, and been buried in the Kremlin...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Its Effects on a Few Have Produced a Harvard Myth | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

...shortage of believable people is the weakest point of the film. Sabu, who plays a young prince caught between the machinations of the villain and the colonials, was a boy when the picture was made and could creditably show the workings of a fourteen-year-old. Massey, on the other hand, does not portray the subtle mentality of an Indian. As someone in the movie says, he is only another gangster...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Drum | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

Kristallnachtt (Crystal Night) was the Germans' name for the night of Nov. 11, 1938. On that night Hitler's SS and the SA bullies tore through Berlin and broke the windows of nearly every Jewish shop in the city. Fourteen synagogues and 25 prayer rooms in what is now West Berlin were set afire. Last week, after years of fitful negotiation, the city of West Berlin settled for the damages. To the Jewish Restitution Successor Organizations and the Jewish Community will go 9,600,000 Deutsch marks ($2,280,000). The city also agreed to forgive payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Indemnity | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...fourteen solo songs, sung by soprano Anne Hollander, tenor Frank Davidoff and baritone Robert Simon, included examples of medieval French minstrelsy, with their German, Italian and English counterparts, plus accompanied songs by such later masters as Machaut, Dufay and Binchois...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Adams House Musical Society | 2/18/1955 | See Source »

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