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Widener Library did report a foot of water at "D" level, however. Buildings and Grounds is "taking all the steps it can to be ready for the predicted cresting of the Charles," the spokesman said. B&G has already increased its supply of flood control equipment, such as pumps and sandbags...
...heaviest March rains in Massachusetts history will raise the Charles eight feet above flood level by Friday, the Massachusetts Civil Defense office said last night...
...Weather Bureau issued emergency Flash Flood warnings late last night as the swollen river--already running three to four feet above flood level in many areas--began to cause minor flood damage near Needham...
Since schools which can't afford to build cyclotrons can still compete for historians (and everybody wants American historians), "It's a constant struggle to keep instructional quality in American history at a high level," Handlin says. This demand is partly responsible for the loss of two promising assistant professors of American history last year--Stephen Thernstrom, now a professor at Brandeis, and Gordon Wood, who went to the University of Michigan...
...program for awarding fellowships to foreign scholars "might, after a period of years, prove to be the most important thing we've done," notes Fleming. By supporting the studies of "young scholars" who will return to teach in their own countries, the Warren Center hopes to raise the low level of international interest in American history. An Indian and a Swede received appointments for last year's trial run of the program; this term four foreign scholars (from Japan, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland) are at the Center...