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...project which may take him the rest of his life to complete. He has put forth a constitutional amendment altering the time-honored way in which America chooses a President. Under the Senator's plan, electoral units would take the place of presidential electors. Each state would keep its present total of electoral votes--but with a difference. Instead of the leading candidate garnering all the electoral votes of one state, Senator Lodge would divide electoral units among the contenders in proportion to the popular vote. And to make sure that his plan would not result in elections going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lodge Plan | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs will present a concert of contemporary chamber music in Paine Hall tonight at 8:30 p.m. at their first open meeting of the year. The program, containing pieces by Ravel, Kohn, Milhaud, and Hindemith, will feature Phyllis Curtin, mezzo-soprano, as guest artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-'Cliffe Music Clubs to Give Chamber Recital Tonight | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Professor Howard Mumford Jones attacked the over-sentimentality present in the teaching of college literature in a welcoming address to over 250 New England college professors of English at the annual meeting of the College English Association in Sever Hall, Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard M. Jones Attacks College Methods of Literature Instruction | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Three other Harvard professors took part in the discussions that followed the opening address. Professor Harry T. Levin '33 spoke on the panel discussing the teaching of the novel, and Professor John Finley, Jr. '25 talked on the relation of ancient and other foreign classics to the present day college curriculum in English. Professor Theodore Spencer, national president of the association, presided over the final meeting at dinner Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard M. Jones Attacks College Methods of Literature Instruction | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Paul J. Sachs '00, emeritus professor of Fine Arts yesterday gifted the University with his "Shady Hill" estate in return for a birthday present consisting of a special exhibit of seventy rare drawings at the Fogg Art Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sachs Gets Fogg Exhibit; Gives His Estate to College | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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