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...Wednesday, April 29, dozens of Harvard history professors squeezed into an already overflowing crowd of history students in Sever 11 to witness the passing of a giant, and perhaps an era, of Harvard education...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Historian Langer Enters Retirement After 37 Years On Harvard Faculty | 6/9/1964 | See Source »

...design itself follows no established style. The standard description--that it is "reminiscent of buildings in New Orleans and Italy"--is none too definitive. Miss Porritt suggests that the building is "vaguely Italian Renaissance, although not in the same sense that Sever is Italian Renaissance." And an imaginative parent took one look at the plaster model and pegged it "houseboat motif...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: New Radcliffe Study Center Will Increase Shelf Space, Provide More Meeting Places, Shorten Cliffies' Rounds | 5/19/1964 | See Source »

Suggestive as they are, the interest of the first two parts is eclipsed by the intimate note of the last. For those of us who knew Miller only by reputation or from the back of Sever II, Heimert's references to his astounding industry or to "the sensitive discernment with which he savored every note-card in his numerous 'shoe-boxes'" fills in a part of the man we never knew. The fascination of the Miller "enigma" appeals to our human interest and excuses our lazy reluctance to follow his difficult thought. Yet for the student, Heimert's interpretation...

Author: By Max Byrd, | Title: The Harvard Review | 4/11/1964 | See Source »

...machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked. And there is the lavender-hued guapote, a tasty pan fish that weighs anywhere from 2 to 12 Ibs., can sever a sturdy" wire leader with one crunch of its needle-sharp teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting & Fishing: Budget Safari | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...bankrupt nation on a solid economic footing, Paz has drawn away from his more radical advisers. Barrientos, the only political figure since the revolution who is outspokenly antiCommunist, argues that the government should break off diplomatic relations with Cuba. If he has his way, Bolivia's decision to sever ties with Castro might lead to new consideration of such action by some or all of the other four hemisphere holdouts: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: New Voice of Moderation | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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