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...which controls the Press finances. Its ex officio chairman is L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice president. Other members are George Pierce Baker, '25, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration; Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library; Erwin N. Griswold. Dean of the Faculty of Law: Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor; and Donald Scott, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Emeritus. The Board members are appointed by the President and Fellows of the University, and their distinction is a measure of Harvard's acceptance of the Press...
Clues to a possible explanation were recently uncovered at the bottom of the sea by Geologists Bruce Heezen and Bill Glass, of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, who were investigating some strange, glasslike fragments known as tektites. Many scientists believe that the tektites, which are found in several areas around the world, were formed when meteorites or comets collided with the earth. The en- counters were so catastrophic that bits of the earth, as well as chunks of the intruder, were hurled into space and then fell back. Heated both by the impact and their swift passage through...
They do, of course, in a concrete sense. Harvard is here, population changed but not very much diminished, business as usual in the Union and Lamont, "winter" students occupying their Eliot House suites, plays on the Loeb mainstage, presses running at the CRIMSON. But they see Harvard as one who stops at Churchill Downs in December and then says he has seen the Kentucky Derby...
Evelyn Nielsen Wood invented the concept of "dynamic reading" and the Institute of Reading Dynamics. Both have been causing a lot of confusion, and not only in the more than 50 American cities which have working Institutes. They are everywhere. Walk into Lamont and you see three or four of them, hands tracing large "S" patterns with their fingers down the pages. And there are many more to come, at least 100,000 more this year. If you read the newspaper you have seen the advertisement: "READ FAST, ACHIEVE MORE...
...Lamont's will was filed for probate in Manhattan Surrogate's Court last Friday with a petition classifying the value of the state at over one million dollars. No precise information about the estate's worth was given...