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Because of the post-war overflow of students, the Law School has been operating on an accelerated schedule since 1945, awarding degrees in February, June, and September. Before the war, awards were made only in June. The recent February class was the next to last one graduating on the accelerated schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Awards 231 Midyear LL. D.'s | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

...newly-named Morris Gray lecturer will be the second poet to appear at the College this year. Last month Robert Frost recited some of his poems and regaled his overflow audience at Kirkland House with his comments on the Kinsey Report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eberhart Will Present Gray Fund Lecture | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...opening talk of the two day foreign affairs school, Edward s. Mason, Dean of the School of Public administration, told an overflow crowd that economic recovery in Europe will injure special interests within the United States economy, but a decline in European exports would be far more unfavorable to the U. S. on the whole. "The first year of E.R.P. has been relatively successful," he asserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hopper Hopes US Joins New Regional Pact | 1/27/1949 | See Source »

...overflow crowd packed Kirkland Junior Common Room and gathered around loudspeakers in the courtyard and dining hall last night to hear Robert Frost give a reading of his poems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frost Readings Pack Kirkland | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

...largest, outside of Milwaukee, but even so, the Times netted only $45,925 in 1947. (The Journal's earnings: $38,279.) Evjue decides which stories to play, and personally covers important legislative hearings. His signed editorials, dictated in a hoarse hog-call, frequently run on Page One; the overflow of his opinions fills a column ("Hello, Wisconsin"). A teetotaler, Evjue is a tireless foe of liquor and gamblers. A deer lover, he won't let his copy desk use "sportsman" in hunting stories (in the Times, a hunter is a hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rivals | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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