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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opening Salvos. Yet Sam Ervin's trial-by-jury issue has already come to dominate the civil rights fight, principally because the slogan can easily outrun the difficult and technical counter-explanation. It has so strengthened the Southern position that civil rights backers may find it impossible to obtain the 64 votes necessary to cut off a Senate filibuster. The Southerners are within shooting distance of a Senate majority for an amendment that would require jury trials in civil rights contempt cases; Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney has announced his support of such an amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies, oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from a "well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and rooms of The CRIMSON completed this floor. Above, in the hall now used as freshman dining room, was a living room. An athlete's training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled one room while on the third floor...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Union | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

Mark L. Krupnick '60 was arrested in Cambridge police headquarters while attempting to obtain information concerning the two sisters responsible for yesterday's disturbance in Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter Arrested For Petty Larceny | 4/30/1957 | See Source »

Shahn used a series of exhortations in describing how an artist should obtain education and culture. "Read everything--the Bible, Hume, Pogo--but not the art reviews. Paint and paint, draw and draw on any smooth surface; the margins of books are excellent. Go visit Paris, Madrid, Rome, Ravenna, Padua and stand alone in the Sainte Chapelle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shahn Discusses Best Education For Young Artist in Final Talk | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

Monro said that he was "surprised and pleased that undergraduates are using the plan" since most undergraduates can obtain non-interest bearing loans through the Financial Aid Office. Most of the students applying for HELP loans are those having obtained maximum credit from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts HELP Program Assists Several Undergraduates | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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