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¶ The key to this old ivy puzzle is the University of Pennsylvania. Penn dates its founding from 1740 and the erection of a building which eleven years later opened '"for the instruction of poor Children gratis in Reading, Writing and Arithmetick." The Academy and Charitable School, as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

"The fact that we are appearing gratis is but one indication of the importance of the occasion," said manager Skinner. Ordinarily the band will not march at all unless provided with a motor-driven float to stand on; but community spirit has given new courage to our sagging arches."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band to Boost Boston Morale with Musical March in Patriots' Parade | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

Though wholesale bloodshed is at an end on most areas of the globe, peacetime accidents and diseases still crop up regularly in all communities, Cambridge included. For the victim of hit-and-run driving or a homorrhagic ailment, a pint of blood, supplied gratis by the State Red Cross is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Sweat, No Tears | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

Princeton's press box put Soldiers Field to shame. At Palmer Stadium the reporters were offered everything from coke to sandwiches to gridiron diagrams--all gratis. It may be just a subtle form or poisoning the press, but the H.A.A, might take note. Tiger Tale Told Harvard Princeton First downs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Day the Goalposts Fell, Or---The Crimson in Triumph Flashing | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Shrewd, Harvard-accented Publisher Robert B. Choate, 48, had dreamed up a celebration that was as inexpensive as it was spectacular. To the Charles River Basin the Herald's advance ballyhoo brought a crowd optimistically estimated by the Herald to be 500,000 and by anybody's count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Herald's Century | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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