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...Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating, labyrinthine streets, its outer battlements and surrounding "greenbelt" of farms and forests providing a protective cellular wall...
...successful candidates will be announced in the CRIMSON next week, and will begin work soon afterwards. Those men who are not chosen, however, will not be rejected, but, after a competition, will form the nucleus of a Register Board to put out their book early in the fall...
Open for the first time to Sophomores, the News and Photographic Boards will form the nucleus of high-pressure interviewing of deans and celebrities. Editorial Board candidates will also meet Professor and Great Men, and learn how to make or break them. They will also write Vagabonds, Profiles, and get free passes to see the actors they will criticize in playgoers...
When Missouri commissioned a mural for its State Capitol, Tom Benton moved his family to Kansas City, and the Saturday nights ended. But within three years they were going strong again. This time the nucleus was a group of Kansas City Symphony players. Musicians began arranging folk tunes and composing original pieces for Old Tom, young T. P. (who now played the flute) and their fellow musicians...
Harvard's track coach, the gonial Finn Jaakko Mikkola, will have to rebuild both his cross-country and his track teams, relying heavily on the incoming Freshmen, though he still has a nucleus of the squad out of which he manufactured a winning combination last season...