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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November Advocate contains a couple of pieces worth any undergraduate's attention and all but the poorest's thirty-five cents. It will also be of clinical interest to admirers of Jerry Kilty, since he has contributed two articles aggregating more than half the total wordage...

Author: By Aloysius B. Mccabe, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

University officials, unhappy about the lack of interest, attribute some of the apathy to the decline in the tutorial system. Before the war many men were influenced by their tutors to compete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $1750 in Prizes Waits for Claiming | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

This indicates how little interest has been shown in the University's endowed prizes since the war ended. Ten awards were not given last year because no entry met the standards of the various judging committees. Most of the 32 others had fewer competitors than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $1750 in Prizes Waits for Claiming | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Commenting on the significance of the Gutenberg Bible, William A. Jackson, professor of Bibliography and head of Houghton Library, said that the book remains of great interest today because it achieved enduring perfection so soon after the first work was done on printing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gutenberg Bible Near Best | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...Society's catering to "new blood" by reorganizing this fall under a new name and constitution really represents the growing demand for Slavic studies at Harvard. Until fairly recently, student interest in eastern European culture was focused mainly on Russian. But during the past two years, the Slavic Department, under the Chairmanship of Professor Karpovich, has expanded to become one of the centers of Slavic studies in the country. With the arrival this fall of two eminent scholars, Professor R. Jakobson--specialist in Slavic languages and civilization, and Dr. D. I. Cizovsky--distinguished for his work in Europe on philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slavic Interest | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

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