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Calvert Magruder '16, a former Harvard professor and the Federal Judge responsible for the death of the Massachusetts Sunday blue law, died Thursday at the Wedgewood Nursing home in Newton...
...layer cakes. Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden is part of a development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
...college and, by asking for $10 from each of the school's 100 students, hired a lawyer who will move against the Trustees in the event of a phase-out. The plan to save the college, which has the endorsement of the college's dean, involves affiliating with Newton's Mount Ida Junior College. The chief stumbling block in the affiliation plan is that Calvin Coolidge and Portia would name only a minority of the trustees of the new board. "But our trustees just don't want to relinquish power," says Coolidge student body president Pat Vinti of Chelmsford...
...large, the Ed School commitment to urban problems remained small. The School was a long way from the torn textbooks, classroom spitballs, and ghetto ferment. Graduating students still fought for jobs in Newton, which (with neighboring surburban towns) had long commanded most of the Ed School's time and talent...
...revolutionary community commitment appeared. Instead, predictably but disastrously, the Ed School tried working in Roxbury the same way it had functioned so successfully in Newton. The School marched into Boston, and from there, onto Blue Hill Avenue, carrying a suburban banner...