Word: severants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union, beside Widener, stands Houghton Library, home of Harvard's rare books. Nearby is the President's House. Emerson, Sever, and Boylston Halls are used for classes, Robinson and Hunt Halls contain the School of Design. Other important buildings are Phillips Brooks House and Wadsworth House...
Tennessee Williams, winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award for 1944-45 with "The Glass Menagerie," will give a reading of his own poems Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock in Sever 11. He will accompany his reading with a commentary...
...twelve leading representatives of the worlds of science, letters, statesmanship, and naval strategy Harvard awarded honorary degrees this afternoon at Commencement exercises in Sever Quadrangle. The recipients, in the order in which the degrees were present, the citations read by President Conant, and biographical data...
Today's Commencement exercises, held under more comfortable climatic conditions than last June, are also more in conformity with tradition, going back to the Sever Quadrangle that has been neglected for the past two years in favor of Tercentenary Theatre. The 1945 Commencement, furthermore, is the first since 1945 in which the civilian has been emphasized; service personnel had their own ceremonies at noon today...
While the past year, and today's Sever Quadrangle exercises, may seem to indicate an approach to reconversion, one peacetime tradition will vanish after this 1945 Commencement: the canvas tent which shades Sever Quadrangle, a canvas which has shaded other Commencements for the past 30 to 40 years and which has been in Harvard's possession for so long that even the Maintenance Department Doesn't know where it originally came from, will be scrapped as a potential danger after this afternoon's ceremonies are over