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Richard R. Niebuhr, previously Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, is the new Hollis Professor of Divinity. The Hollis professorship, the oldest endowed chair at Harvard, was vacated when professor George H. Williams retired last semester...
...that provide what Poe called the potent magic of verisimilitude (each character in this bookish book continually quotes and attributes in mid-sentence). Examples of the Cross eye: a sophisticated senior's statement to a mystified outsider. "Oh, nobody uses money at the Coop": or an accurate assessment of Lamont (squeaky floors) vs. Hilles (empty except during reading period) libraries: or the Independent's paranoia about The Crimson: or the fact that no one shovels snow off Cambridge sidewalks. All of these add up to a remarkably persuasive and amusing portrait of life in these environs...
Heather E. Cole, Hilles and Lamont librarian, said that some users might at first resist the new technology of the microfiche catalog. But in the long run, she added, "it'll make the libraries easier...
John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, will head a recently reconstituted labor-management group, which will address ways business and labor can coordinate their actions to revitalize America economically...
...pieces ever instead of the representative sampling he tried to assemble. Still, there is some good stuff in these 374 pages, even if you don't have 14 Plympton St. on the brain. Not 17 dollars worth, to be sure, but enough to waste an hour or so in Lamont with if you're too lazy, or more likely unmotivated, to investigate Harvard's past through a direct look-over of volumes...