Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great March Crisis managed to change Dudley to the status of a regular House for one day at least. A College official said yesterday that day students would be allowed to sleep overnight because of the exceptional conditions. Adding to the boarding problems, several professors did not return home last night and slept at the College so they could give classes as scheduled...
...three leaders were not yet to have their way in Jordan. The 20-year-old King Hussein had become, overnight, a national hero by expelling Glubb. But when the three potentates in Cairo invited Hussein to accept their financial aid in place of the $25 million annual subsidy Britain has been paying Jordan, Hussein declined to give up his treaty and his financial ties with London. Why should he trade the dependability of the British Exchequer for bondage to the Saudi royal family, blood enemies of his Hashemite clan? He seemed genuinely shocked by the uproar in Britain over...
...Paris Commune of 1871, French Banker Gustave Dreyfus, 35, sought out Paris Art Critic Charles Timbal. Taking shrewd advantage of the general despair, Dreyfus coolly offered to buy the collection of Italian Renaissance art works that Timbal had spent 19 years assembling. Timbal sold, thus making Dreyfus overnight the possessor of a small private museum of Renaissance sculpture and painting...
...will be co-ordinated in the new building. Apparently, the Music I assignment records, along with the curious machines that make them sing, will also be moved. The closing hour has yet to be fixed, and it has not been determined whether or not records will be available for overnight loan...
...order of preference, the final suggestion--records at the new music library available until 10 p.m. and for outside use overnight--seems best. Because a music librarian will be in attendance anyway, the additional expense should be negligible. The plight of the student unable to fit his schedule into the workings of the business days is a serious one. Expenses or not, the records should be made available painlessly and within more liberal hours...