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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main object of the fund at present is to obtain the necessary $7.5 million for the library as soon as possible. After this is accomplished, there is no definite time limit set for the completion of the drive...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: University Medical Center Opens Drive to Raise $58 Million Fund | 10/19/1957 | See Source »

...main weight in the scrum will come from Charlie Eaton, a member of last year's football and rugby teams, South African Derek Henderson and Englishman Jim Cooper, both at the Business School, and junior Bill Gill, all of whom are 200 plus...

Author: By Alastair J.C.E. Rellie, | Title: Crimson Ruggers Appear Powerful As Season Opens | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

Shaplin spoke in reference to the school committee's 17 secret appointments last December, the main issue of the election on November 5. He is endorsed for re-election to the committee by the Cambridge Civic Association, which came in for many attacks at the rally...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Shaplin Gives Angry Tone To City's Election Meeting | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...Wendell who can truly be called the founder, and the main supporter of American literature at Harvard in its early years. Kenneth Murdock has said that the history of the teaching of American literature at Harvard is not the story of "general attitudes, but of men," and Wendell is perhaps the prime example. An avowed Anglophile, his beard and spats gave him the appearance of "a real professor," in the words of one awed freshman in his course. It is told that upon walking into his first class of the term and being greeted by thunderous applause, he responded with...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Study of U.S. Literature Comes of Age | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...Seven huge platform trucks will soon transport it to Hartford, Conn., where it will be fitted to the steel frame of Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford's new office building. In place, the bas-relief will serve as a 110-ft.-long wall over the building's main entrance. It is an abstraction with overtones of cubism -an endless procession of angular, cloudy, faceless figures that seem to shift, melt and glide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of His Own Pocket | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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