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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life. It was like the Goths coming into Rome." Oppenheimer rampaged through the Widener Library stacks: he read Dante in Italian, got a "working knowledge" of French literature, dipped into Chinese, philosophy, mathematics. In his third year, he took six courses and attended four more (normal quota: five). He liked exams-"the definiteness and excitement"-and got A's. One Oppenheimer remark is a Harvard legend: "It was so hot today the only thing I could do all afternoon was lie on my bed and read Jeans's Dynamical Theory of Gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Radcliffe came to the rescue yesterday and boosted Brooks House's current blood drive well over the top of its 200-donor quota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Blood Donors Relieve PBH Quota Dilemma with 41-Pint Pledge | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive, which has been contributing 200 pints of Harvard blood to the Red Cross each term for free distribution in Massachusetts hospitals, is 50 pints short of its quota this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Drive | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

Only 100 people have signed to give their blood, 50 percent of the PBH quota. Flalkow has asked for 100 more donors to appear at Phillips Brooks House next Monday or Tuesday to fill the Red Cross quota for Harvard. Prospective donors should contact Flalkow in Adamis I-22 or sign up at Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bloodthirsty PBH Still Wants More | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

...Reducing the Sacred College of Cardinals to 56 (full quota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Leader | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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