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More and more the Harvard officialdom has taken over Wadsworth, from the Hygiene people to the Summer School. Following a complete structural renovation in 1950, it became the Alumni Center, home of the Alumni Bulletin, the Harvard Fund Council, the University Marshal, and other such activities. Though this is very appropriate for the second oldest house in the Yard, still it is not like the old days. But who knows? Dean Bundy or someone may move in and Wadsworth, like Massachusetts Hall, will begin the road back...
Mussolini created him a Marshal of Italy, later made him Viceroy of Ethiopia. Summoning the populace to the viceregal palace in Addis Ababa, Graziani stood up to address them when a couple of hand grenades bounced in. Graziani fell, crying, "They've killed me." Every Italian who had a weapon began firing into the crowd. In a few minutes there were a thousand dead in the palace grounds. Promiscuous killing, arson and pillaging went on for days. Total dead: 1,600. Even Mussolini protested, but Graziani, whose wounds were superficial, replied: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil...
Wallace R. Harper '30 has been named Chief Marshal to lead the Harvard alumni in the 1955 Commencement. His selection was announced yesterday by Devereux C. Josephs '15, President of the Harvard Alumni Association...
Harper is Vice-President of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, a director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and a vice-chairman of the class of 1930. The Chief Marshal is traditionally selected from the 25th Reunion Class...
Unlike Dedijer, Djilas is frankly, in opposition to Marshal Tito himself. "Tito did good for the country during the war and for a short time after the war," Partisan Hero Djilas told TIME. "But Tito is an old, hard-line Marxist, and Marxism as he practices it is only for backward countries in Asia and on the fringe of Russia. Yugoslavia has evolved to a position where it needs greater political freedom." Djilas calmly cited his own situation: "Even as recently as 1949, Tito would have had to order me jailed or executed. But in 1954, with it publicly known...