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...skull of Mt. Carmel Man, the only Paleolithic man on exhibit in the United States, sits staring moodily at his bones in case across the hall. Not far away stands the Museum's ample collection of shrunken and mummified human beads, calculated to surprise even the most hardened curiosity-seeker...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Peabody Museum: Lures for Laymen, Nerve-Centre for the Anthropologist | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

This is the first Republican Christmas in twenty years. Does that mean it will be a Christmas of hard work, of spoils to the rugged individualist and nothing for the security-seeker? Christmas has traditionally been a season for the extension of largesse to the grasshopper who didn't store up the summer crops as well as the ant who did, a season of good will to all, Democrats and Republicans alike. Everyone has been able to share in Christmas: the carol-singers, the people who lovingly fendle Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as well as those who parody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Present | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

...John Culver asked Bob Hardy rhetorically, "How could you be happier?" In the other, a knee-high New Haven autograph-seeker inquired of a sophomore in a top-coat, "Are you a football player?" The sophomore was Bill Meigs...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Too Warm for Flasks . . . | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Many students throughout the University are sure that at least one Harvard professor is new using subversive tactics. Even the most hardened gut seeker in Raphael Demos philosophy classes finds that the lecturer has sneaked across the rudiments of western philosophy to an intellectually calloused mind. I can't understand it, one freshman groaned. "Every time I look at a table or a cat, or a telephone. I wonder what its prefection is in Plato's world of forms...

Author: By E. H. Harvry, | Title: Platonist at Large | 11/14/1953 | See Source »

...mire of wishful thinking, Dean Inge lifts the whole field of religion. He is a fearless seeker after spiritual truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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