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This brings the year's contribution total to approximately $400,000 and still leaves a vast difference between the present total and the sum necessary to match the Rockefeller donation. The donation of $5,000,000 given to the Business School by John D. Rockefeller Jr. last spring was made under the condition that a sum equal to it would be raised by July...
...Student Council sent a telegram last night to Dean of Yale College William C. DeVane asking him to clarify the status of Harvard students at the dances being given by the Yale residence colleges Saturday night...
According to present arrangements, outsiders must be guests of residents of the colleges giving dances in order to be admitted. Exception is made in the case of Eliot House residents which have been invited to a dance being given by their "brother house" at Yale"--Jonathan Edwards College...
...courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs. To establish and endow Cooper Union, its founder had given...
Despite its gummy spots, e.g., a trite pep talk by Chaplain Leon Ames explaining to a battle-hardened gang of veterans why they are fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads...