Word: severances
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...have been forced to the conviction that it is impossible at present to expect from athletic competition with Harvard that spirit of cordial good will which should characterize athletic sports. Under these circumstances we have voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports...
Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...sovereigns and sheiks around the gulf from wild tribal attacks out of the hinterland. The discovery of oil-or the hope of it-made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like the Sultan of Muscat and Oman himself, reign over barren sand and hope for oil strikes...
...organizational meeting will be held tonight at 7 in Sever 11 for everyone interested in singing in the Summer School Chorus, according to Harold C. Schmidt, Director of Choral Music at Stanford University, who will direct the chorus again this year...
...Architecture" was a special exhibition presented in cooperation with the American Institute of Architects on the occasion of their 100th anniversary. Arranged by Norman Fletcher, it included 32 large panels of photographs and descriptive commentaries of representative milestones (some no longer extant) in New England architecture, including Harvard's Sever Hall (by H.H. Richardson), Lowell House (by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott), and a proposed new city plan for Spring-field, Mass. by students in the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Much of the excellent photography in the exhibit was done by the renowned Samuel Chamberlain (which reminds me that...