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...were greatly surprised after having submitted this column to learn that Harvard had adopted somewhat the same policy as Bowser. Naturally, therefore, rather than cause any embarrassment to our alma mater, we hastened to Leo the Printer with instructions to omit-our article. We returned thinking as was well. You can imagine how surprised we are to find that Leo knifed...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/3/1943 | See Source »

...accents. Like a quarter million or so predecessors, the studying teachers flock to the Grove before and after classes. On rustic benches around trees named for the States, they foregather to 1) exchange impressions of the advanced intellectual life, 2) make dates to be snapshot in front of Alma Mater's gilt statue, 3) talk about exotic eating possibilities downtown, 4) plan tours of the city's features, from Chinatown, Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, to the nightclubs (where many will probably enrage waiters by asking for nonalcoholic drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Columbia in the Heat | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

This writer suggests we make it a "staff" month. The staff could be given diplomas at a formal exercise. (It might be well if they had proof that they had at least been over the subject mater they are teaching.) And then the staff could give the ball and invite all the student, officers to come an enjoy it-gratis...

Author: By B. C. C. travelstead, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...alumnl." NO doubt a man who hasn't been to Cambridge in a long time would be surprised to see all the men standing guard in the Yard and uniforms all over the pace, but they wouldn't be shocked. Most Harvard men are proud of what their Alma Mater is doing for the war effort. It would probably please them to see all the complimentary things that are said about just that, but letters to the editor should be rolling in by now concerning the remainder of the article...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

Usafi, the alma mater of these students, is at Madison, Wis. Supervising from Washington's Pentagon Building is Harvard's onetime Education School Dean Francis Trow Spaulding, now a colonel in the Army's Special Service Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Old Usafi | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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