Word: holden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Escape from Fort Bravo. High-style horse opera, a worthy stablemate to Shane and High Noon; with William Holden, John Forsythe (TIME...
...Best actor: William Holden, for his portrayal of the heel turned hero in Stalag 17. Holden's versatile performances in two other good pictures, The Moon Is Blue and Escape from Fort Bravo, probably contributed...
...early eighteen hundreds, College officials tried to salvage the Chapel. They divided it into two stories, put in skylights and enlarged the windows, but for the next fifty years, Holden rated nothing better than the smells of science. At one time it held the Medical School, the physics department and a chemistry laboratory, each science department adding its characteristic flavor. During one Chemistry lecture, "a mass of disagreeable smoke filled the building and the class threw themselves out of the windows." The Medical School specialized in corpses, and visitors to the College were always impressed by the rather gory displays...
Gradually, the science departments escaped to more spacious quarters, and Holden became a medical museum. But the collection of skeletons was far too tempting and the building too easily plundered. Midnight raids and subsequent wall displays of skulls and thigh bones became a mid-century tradition. The notorious Med. Fac. has been traced back to these raids. This addition to undergraduate nihilism rounded out Holden's nineteenth century innovations...
...century, Holden Chapel started its second childhood. The University tore out all partitions and the second floor, leaving it much like the Chapel of 1744. Newly painted and stylish, Holden became a favorite club room. Its only flaw was an echo which muffled even the clearest lecture. Public speaking courses, however, turned echo to asset as students practiced under the worst possible conditions. But today, Holden has found congenial tenants. As home for the Glee Club, its resonant walls and battered floor perfectly contain both song and beer...