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...began Spring Thunder, the first of the coolly intellectual Mark Van Doren verses that now fill a dozen volumes. One volume, Collected Poems, won him the Pulitzer Prize a year after Carl. His Nathaniel Hawthorne did for one of the nation's literary founding fathers what brother Carl did for Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps Mark Van Doren's most lasting achievement has been fashioned in the classrooms of Columbia; he ranks among the great U.S. teachers. One former student, Trappist Father Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton, wrote of him: "His classes were literally 'education'-they brought...
Another economist taking part in the symposium, Nathaniel Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO, sharply attacked the president's economic policy for its "dogmatic insistence on reducing governmental economic and social activities...
...first two years, the College struggled to get on its feet. It very nearly failed. The John Harvard gift of books and money arrived in 1638 to help with early financial difficulties, but in 1639 the first master, Nathaniel Eaton, was dismissed on complaints of brutality. The quality of food his wife dispensed was also an issue. For the next academic year (1639-40) the College was deserted. Many thought it would never reopen...
...Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr. '52, former Harvard hockey player, was named the new coach of the Freshman hockey team yesterday by Thomas D. Bolles, director of Athletics...
...annual Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, in the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Here symphony, choral and chamber music concerts will be given for six weeks, July 4 (this Wednesday) to August 12, on what the press agent calls "the spacious pine-clad estate where a century ago Nathaniel Hawthorne was a guest and told his 'Tanglewood Tales...