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From 50 annual lists published by the Bookman, by Books of the Month (now Bowker Book Guides), and by her own Publishers' Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant...
Announced recently by the House committees of Lowell and Adams were the elections of seven men, who will take office with the opening of the spring term. From a field of 26 nominees, the Bellboys picked George I. Bell '48, Stephen Fischer-Galati '45, Robert Hackett '48, Donor Lion '45, and Chester Pierce '48; while on the Gold Coast, Thomas A. Fennell, Jr. '48, and Richard T. Gill '48, were chosen from a list of eight...
Brig. Gen. Robert W. Strong, USA, wrote in a letter of recommendation that in view of Lt. Hackett's serious wounds received in battle, he had used him in a training inspection capacity which called for talks to junior officers and men undergoing training, for the purpose of instilling into them the realities of the battlefield...
Unlike most veterans, Lt. Hackett is not discharged, but was awarded a regular Army retirement. Concentrating in architecture, he plans to continue the remainder of his education at Harvard...
From Army lecture platform to Standout Hall is a strange transition, but Lt. Hackett is taking it in stride, mixing with all, making numerous friends, and gradually fitting himself into the regular pattern of life. Commenting on this life he says seriously that he is "very well satisfied here at Harvard" and "more than pleased with the way in which I have been received...