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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fires at Harvard seem to come in mysterious series. The Fly Club had two fires within a month in 1932; Hollis and Stoughton burned in rapid succession in the eighteen-seventies; every Final Club has had fire damage since the twenties; and Memorial Hall has been victim of flames periodically...
During the month of March, 1951, the whole University seemed about to go up in flames. It was a anxious time for the Administration and many dormitory residents. On the first Saturday of the month, a Claverly Hall blaze forced students out of bed and into the street. Damages were set at $65,000 by fire marshals, who suspected that the blaze was intentionally started in a closer. Irate students blamed the University for irresponsibility in connection with the fire. Harvard, in turn, announced that it was under contract for the rooms and could take no responsibility for damages...
...wife, two children, and I live in the Harvard housing development known as Shaler Lane. We have just received notice that rents are being raised to about $84.00 per month. Our heating bill averages $20.00 per month. Thus the cost of having a place to live is over $100.00 per month. I find it incredible that a university of the stature of Harvard should not only not subsidize housing for its students in general, and its married students in particular, but that it should charge rents beyond the capacity of many students. Surely Harvard does not assume that everyone seeking...
While no national figures are available on the number of people that have signed the petition, Mrs. Elizabeth Thorndike, Executive Secretary of the Greater Boston Committee, reported yesterday that the Boston group had collected 1500 signatures natures in the past month. A similar petition at the beginning of the Conference last October was signed by 65,000 people...
Judge Theodore A. Glynn, Jr. gave the Leverett House junior a three-month suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident and failure to identify, a $50 fine for negligent driving, and placed the charge of driving the wrong way on a one-way street on file...