Word: prescott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment buildings on Prescott St. that will become freshman dormitories this fall will be named after two formers Deans of the College, it was announced yesterday...
Should a newsman refuse to identify confidential sources of his information about a crime? Long tradition says he should. But legally-except in twelve states that have laws reinforcing the tradition-he has no more right than any other citizen to withhold information. In Fort Worth last week, William Prescott Allen, 60, publisher of the Laredo, Texas Times (circ. 15,283), faced the choice of revealing sources or going to jail...
Although little documentary evidence exists on the next couple of decades, M.I.T. historian Samuel C. Prescott says they were characterized by "subtle attempts to compromise the Institute's independence." In 1898 these culminated in another proposal for closer union...
...move designed to unify the House groups, Watson said students from Dunster, Leverett, Lowell, and Winthrop would move to Wigglesworth, Adams, Eliot, and Kirkland will remain in Claverly. Such widespread "annexes" as the Business School and Apley Court, will no longer be used, nor will recently acquired 8 Prescott St., he added...
...passages such as this a reader can realize the difference between the academic library critic, who is at odds with the whole reading world, and the commercial critic, who tries to be friends with at least part of it. For doing what he does, Prescott can be forgiven much of his public musing on his past...