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...wooded campus of the George School, in Pennsylvania's rolling Bucks County, students call their principal "the Pope" and the cheerful cottage where he lives "the Vatican." Actually, the George School, founded in 1893, is the largest and one of the best Quaker prep schools in the U.S. It is also one of the nation's few coeducational boarding schools. Gentle, willowy George A. Walton has been the Pope longer than most of his students' parents can remember. Last week he announced that he was retiring. "Forty years," said he, "is long enough...
...middle of the nineteenth century was an era in which men demanded "practical" results from science, and it was with this in mind that Abbott. Lawrence grandfather of President Lowell, gave $50,000 to the University for a graduate school of science. This was the largest single gift ever donated by an individual to an American institution of learning up to that time...
February finds New Hampshire winter resorts and snow fields overflowing with visitors and preparing for special holiday events. Skiers everywhere have taken advantage of unusually good snow conditions, and many resorts report the largest turnover of guests in many years...
Charles W. Duhig '29, graduate secretary of PBH, cited the pair's achievement "in rebuilding the social service committee from its wartime low to the second largest in Harvard history," while guest speaker John M. Kingman '14, head of the Lincoln-Hale House in South Boston, added his congratulations...
...frankly hopes that U.S. industry will buy its films. One of the largest customers for earlier offerings was Amtorg (Soviet-U.S. trading company). OTS will continue to sell its wares to all comers. Wide distribution of German technical knowledge will do more to increase the lead of U.S. industry than any attempt at secrecy...