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...three colleges are within eight miles of each other in Philadelphia's suburbs. Two of the three installed new presidents (both Rhodes Scholars) last autumn: Swarthmore, John William Nason, 36; Haverford, Felix Morley, 47, formerly editor of the Washington Post. With Bryn Mawr's scholarly President Marion Edwards Park, 65, they cooked Up a scheme to exchange teachers, books, students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quaker Marriage | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Pretty brainy, Radcliffe, Freshmen were asked their frank opinions on local topics in a regular Wednesday feature broadcast. Priscilla Nason removed the reputed stuffling from Harvard men's shirtfronts by declaring "they're just as manageable as fellows from any other college." Francine Bogart, who is French, liked Boston for its "European atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe's Opinions Start Network Season | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...Major Leonard Nason charged last fortnight in a denunciatory book, Approach to Battle. "Dependence on pigeons as a means of signal communication," said he "is leaning on a broken reed." Week the book was published, Major Nason was ordered to active service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Gimpy | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Roberts-he comes from Maine. Even before there were 13 colonies, Boston theocrats found out that the rest of the country might or might not go as Maine goes, but Maine would keep right on going its own way. One of the earliest men to settle there was Richard Nason who arrived in Kittery before 1639. Toward the end of the last century, Grandmother Jane Nason Tibbets used to take six-year-old Grandson Kenneth Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian massacres-burning villages, murdered and mutilated men; women and little children trudging through the deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Man's Romance | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Jerry Nason of the Globe: "Harvard is no weaker than last year and Army is certainly no stronger. Harvard should win 14 to 6. But watch Mazur, who passes and kicks as well as Charley O'Rourke. There was no back on the Freshman team at B. C. as good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERTS DIVE INTO HUDDLE; RESULT--WIN FOR CRIMSON | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

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