Word: halls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian edifice is being entirely remodelled inside: fluorescent bulbs and light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope to do the same for Harvard Hall. At last, it seems, the University is taking its seamier side in hand...
...founded by a wealthy Boston lawyer named Henry Fowle Durant, who contributed $1,000,000 for the training of future teachers and "the glory of God." Its first students numbered 314-a bewildered group in bustles & bonnets, who were carted in horse-drawn "barges" up to old College Hall...
...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
British author and lecturer Mrs. Margaret Cole will speak on "The Role of Fabianism in British Social History" at 8:30 p. m. tonight in Cabot Hall...
...classical music. Long dramatic pauses, and abrupt changes in tempo sound a mite strange. In the third movement of the Beethoven, there were moments of uncertainty in the Orchestra, signs of the difficult change of interpretation. But it is nothing serious, and Munch's first concert indicates that Symphony Hall is going to be rocked back on its heels in the weeks to come...