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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hofer officially retired last year, but he maintain an office in the basement of the Houghton. In it is a cot, covered with a rug--"late 17th or early 18th century Imperial rug"--where he can rest. He has often slept nights there, where it is cool, when the weather outside has been hot. His office is cluttered with pieces of art, papers, photographs, small figures, and chests which he says are "all full of things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Library | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

Hofer officially retired in July, but he maintains an office in the basement of the Houghton. In it is a cot, covered with a rug -- "late 17th or early 18th century Imperial rug" -- where he can rest. He has often slept nights there, where it is cool, when the weather outside has been hot. His office is cluttered with pieces of art, papers, photographs, small figures, and chest which he says are "all full of things...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...Wall Street continues to woof happily on its financial looms, if the Peking and Hanoi carpetmakers can be taught to weave a softer warp, and if the Soviets don't throw their bearskin rug across more frontiers, then 1969 will be the busiest, dizziest sewing bee in European vacation history," announces the introduction to Fielding's new Guide, published last month. In that same hortatory fashion, Fielding fusses over his readers' clothes ("A sport jacket on an adult is considered improper at the leading restaurants"), warns them about con men ("No matter how dazzling the offer, puh-LEEZE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Guide to Temple Fielding | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...damage is confined to one-forth of the classroom and consists primarily of charred furniture and papers, and soot on the ceiling. Water from the sprinklers soaked a rug next door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Hits ROTC Building; Evidence Indicates Arson | 5/6/1969 | See Source »

...contended that the militants made a charade of the academic freedoms they seek to preserve: that pulling the rug from under ROTC would scandalize academic freedom, depriving those who want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Watches Harvard | 4/17/1969 | See Source »

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