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...17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...
...Neat Answers. Though responsibility for the study and its findings fell on an "Ad Hoc Citizens' Committee" of 22.† the rake work was done by Dr. Robert H. Hamlin, 38, an associate professor of public health administration at Harvard. An aggressively organized man with degrees in public health and law as well as an M.D.. Dr. Hamlin likes neat and consistent answers to straightforward questions. In this study, as he sifted the results of 500 interviews and stacks of reports collected over two years, he could find none. Even the biggest and best-known health agencies, such...
...University official explained that cases like Seeger's are decided by a fairly set rule, but on an ad hoc basis...
...city-wide ad hoc committee to study recreational facilities and a smaller group studying community organization as it relates to urban renewal may provide the catalyst for redevelopment in Cambridge...
...sightseers who have entered the Cathedral of St.-Lazare in Autun, on a hill 150 miles southeast of Paris, probably only a handful have seen or pondered long over the words carved at the foot of a primitive Christ above one of the doors. The words are "Gislebertus Hoc Fecit," and thanks to this signature, the glories of medieval European art do not, as in almost all instances, have to be written off as the work of devoted but anonymous artisans...