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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the State Zoning Enabling Act, the University, as an educational institution, now qualifies identically with religious and charitable organizations in exemption from city zoning ordinances, according to William H. Lewis, Jr...
...Combined Charities Drive, Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the Drive Committee, pointed out the need for a strong campaign in the Yard and suggested a goal of $15,000. Albert L. Jacobs '61, secretary of the Harvard Student Council, announced that he and Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., '61 would act as liason between the Student and Freshman Councils...
...Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College...
...also brought other troubles-among them the revival of the oldtime boiler shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby...
...other action, Marshall R. Pihl, Jr. '60, explained the operation of HDC's newly instituted lighting and set construction "lab," which begins Thursday at 3 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre. "We're going to approach the problem as though we had very limited equipment at our disposal," Pihl said...