Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the custom of recent years, donations of the 25th anniversary class of Harvard College, which makes a special donation to Harvard, were omitted from the Fund Council figures...
...Recent controversies over permanent appointments at Harvard, largely based on personal issues, and the tendency for interested students to participate in the debate over appointments recalls Zimmerman's statement on the dangers of popularity to a balanced set of teaching standards...
...total of 150 panes of glass have passed the great divide since the recent snowfall, collapsing before the unerring aim of student snow-heavers. Gore Hall has been the hardest-hit. Its windows have been perforated 20 times, and its gaping panes have stirred the maintenance department into frenzied attempts to apprehend the vandals responsible for the carnage...
...Senate Press Gallery in Washington from 1898 to 1931, Senate Librarian from 1931 to 1935, now assistant administrator of the archives of the U. S., 63-year-old James D. Preston is a familiar figure to Washingtonians. An accomplished woodworker, he has designed the sets for most recent Gridiron Club shows. A ringer for Neville Chamberlain, he impersonated the British Prime Minister in the last Gridiron show with no make-up except an umbrella. Last week Jim Preston's long and honorable career reached an appropriate climax. He accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood as technical adviser...
Cardinal Maglione is a seasoned diplomat who went to school with Eugenio Pacelli, has in recent years been Papal Nuncio in Switzerland and in France. When he was sent to France in 1926, he was coldly received as "pro-German." Before he left in 1936, he had grown so close to the French Government that he was reported to have had a hand in the Hoare-Laval peace offer during the Italo-Ethi-opian War. Last week, before he was named, the German and Italian Governments actively opposed Cardinal Magli-one's candidacy for Secretary of State...