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...University police spokesman said yesterday two or three burglars apparently entered Dana Palmer House about 3 a.m. Sunday and removed the clock, which was on loan from the Fogg Museum, from the building's first-floor hallway...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Antique Clock Is Stolen From Dana Palmer House | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

Getting to know students is part of the life of every Harvard child. Josh and Anna, who live on a North House hallway and eat in the dining hall, know many students by name and play with them often. Their parents do not mind these friendships, although Graeme Fincke, their father, says, "Unless a student shows a particular affection for the kids, we try to keep them from raising hell...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Making a House a Home | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...place. Candidates' names have to be verified against a master sheet before the room number of the department chairman who is conducting the interview is divulged. "If Yale registered its suite," explains Roy Chustek, who runs the job center, "they'd have people camping out in the hallway, pushing resumes under the door and through the air vents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Doctoral Dilemmas | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Shortly before 3 a.m., the festive decorations caught fire, turning the 120 ft.-long hallway into a tunnel of flames. Aroused by a shrill fire alarm, residents on the lower floors rushed down three stairways to safety. Some students on the fourth floor prudently stayed in their rooms, which were separated from the corridor by fire-resistant doors; they were plucked to safety by fire fighters on ladders. But others panicked, threw open their doors and plunged into the inferno in a desperate sprint for the stairs. Two oeds leaped to their deaths on the frozen ground 40 ft. below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Holiday Eve Disasters | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Peering through the lace curtains at the elegant hallway inside, I knock timidly at the glass door. I hope only that my brother will be the only person awake in the house and that all of the dogs are safely locked away in some distant catacomb. On both points I am to be disappointed. After a few taps I hear a single distant barker, soon joined by another and then another. Suddenly I see that the whole hallway is a swelling mess of howling, leaping, nadly salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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