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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This enemy, Berlin disclosed in a recent article in Time and Tide, British weekly, is the over-emphasis on social and economic miseries of our times. This gives a sense of guilt to the student or professor who wonders whether he is justified in absorbing himself in the study, "let us say, of the early Greek epic at Harvard while the poor of South Boston go hungry and unshed and Negroes are denied fundamental rights in the deep South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin, Ex-Harvard Lecturer, Cites Faults of Universities | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

Food complaints fall easily into a cyclical pattern. First, the founding fathers insisted that all students be served at a common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation for a University-sponsored dining hall soon began and resulted in a voluntary commons at Memorial Hall in 1874. Support of this system finally waned, and in 1923 Memorial Hall was abandoned. Immediately pressure began for a good dining system. This movement ended in the present house system, which...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: College Has 300 Year Food Problem | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...dragoon guards, resplendent in red and yellow costumes, never let themselves show the strain of an opening night, nor the boredom of singing something that they had done hundreds of times before in rehearsal. Their antics onstage frequently left the pit dragoons laughing so much they were incapable of singing...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...host of comments accompanied answers to all questions, the most common complaints that the Radcliffe Library does not have enough books to go round in many courses, particularly in English, and that there is no reason Lamont cannot let Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JRC Poll Shows 'Cliffe Favors Sharing Lamont | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...Well, let us set a precedent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senator Flanders Discusses War, Peace in Godkin Finale | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

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