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University officials have indicated that besides halting construction of badly needed facilities for the School of Education, creation of a historic district could hamper maintenance and upkeep of existing buildings within the district. Massachusetts, Harvard, Hollis, Lionel, and Mower Halls, Holden Chapel, Phillips Brooks House, Littauer Center, and all buildings on the Garden St. side of Radcliffe Yard would be affected...
Writing on the liberal counter-rally, Yalie Ronald Holden commented that "nothing particularly startling was said" in the "decadent"-looking St. Nicholas Arena. The audience for "this improvised passion play," Holden added, applauded enthusiastically for cries of "We want peace!" but only politely for "We want freedom...
...missionary is William Holden, a priest who arrives in China just before the Communists take over. The beautiful native girl is France Nuyen, who is rescued by the padre from a flood. 'I love you!" she sighs, and flings her arms around him. Hot under his clerical collar, the priest squeaks: "Stop tantalizing me!" She sneaks into his room at night. "Father," she coos, "don't you need anything?" Pulling the covers over his chest, he wheezes in terror: "Get out!" Pretty soon she has him ogling her while a Mass is being read...
Many an educator seconds Hero Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye, whose wry view of "Pencey Prep" echoes the language repeatedly used in advertising military academies. For military schools are widely scorned as something akin to reform schools with tuition-handy places for the rich or the divorced to dump incorrigible offspring. "Military schools are a symbol of the abdication of parental responsibility," scoffs one non-military headmaster...
After all, the very ideas of life boats was absurd. The Titanic was unsinkable. I am sure the few lucky survivors of that disaster would be most impressed with the Committee's views. William Holden Clafin '65. David Griffiths '64 Tod Gitlin...