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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Social Science courses are equally far from the original proposal. "Harvard College should assume a full and a conscientious responsibility for training men in the nature of the heritage which they possess, and in the responsibilities which they must assume as free men for its enlargement and perpetuation." Although a majority of the lower level courses have remained historical, and thus concerned with the "nature of the heritage" the responsibilities implied have not been assumed...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: General Education: Program Without a Policy; Professional Pressures Replace the Redbook | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...House of Bronzes is itself a fascinating area. In the second week of August, three bronze vases were found under a melon patch not far from the highway. Hanfmann bought the land and excavations soon disclosed a luxurious room, full of bronzes of early Christian and Roman origins. The floor of a neighboring room glistened with elegant marble work. A fine statue of Bacchus stood in the corner of one room along with objects of a Christian nature and on the floor incised with Christian symbols. The mystery of the coexistence of the statute of the pagan...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Near the elegant main room of the "H.B.", a small room full of vases was uncovered. Though almost ready to close the expedition for the year, the two young archaeologists who found the area rushed to Professor Hanfmann who could verify the type of pottery. He excitedly identified the cases and sherds as Lydian, ranging from the Early Iron Age to archaic (Sixth Century B.C.). The room, apparently a potter's shop, was a remnant of the fabled city of Sardis, the fied the vases and sherds as Lydian, from uncovered some of the town walls of Sardis dating from...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...influenced the shape and size of every other arena, and even made its mark on rules of the game. When public indignation over football's "roughness" forced President Theodore Roosevelt to institute a new set of rules in 1906, one of the proposed changes was to make fields a full 40 yards wider. This move would have changed the whole character of football, turning it into a Rugby-type game, with more lateral passing and sideways running. Harvard protested, however, that such an innovation would outdate its six-year-old Stadium, and the rule-making body decided to institute...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Nation's Oldest Stadium Has Colorful Past | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...Macmillan government has recorded another major economic advance. The benefits resulting from increased trade and sharpened international cmpetition can now work towards lowering prices. With a favorable trade and dollar balance for the first time in this century, England has been able to lower taxes, stabilize prices, maintain full employment and establish external convertibility of the pound. Last week Britain repaid a quarter of a billion dollar United States loan over five years in advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sterling Recovery | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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