Word: severities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to meet the mathematics requirements for commissions in the Navy can brush up with a course on trigonometry by Frank J. Herlihy of the Boston school department, which meets in Sever Hall on Friday evenings...
...request of General Washington, became a barracks for the hard-pressed regulars of the siege of Boston. The thirty-odd rooms were filled to the very rafters with men in coonskin who drilled in the Yard and attended sermons on spots that corresponded to the Law School and Sever. Hollis became a symbol of Harvard's contribution to the effort of the new nation. When the men left, they left a sign, which has become a plate, recording the service rendered by Thomas Hollis' gift...
...course in navigation, to be given by Associate Professor Leonard Opdycke, will open in Sever 8 at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Open to anyone who wishes to attend, whether or not he is connected with the College, the course runs for eight weeks, three hours per week...
...stirred uneasily in his hard Sever chair and looked about him. All the students were busy writing. Vag thought perhaps it was time he started writing also. They had told him Russian would be a very useful language. if you only knew how to say "Kak pozshevayetye, tovarish Stalin?" a commission and the glamourous life of an intelligence man was yours. The instructor gargled throatily and everyone else laughed. They were, Vag mused, an interesting lot. For instance, there was the red-headed man with the weak pink beard who mouthed his vowels as though he were chewing each...
...Union, beside Widener, stands the Houghton Library, unmarked on this map. Nearby is the President's House. Emerson, Sever, and Boylston Halls are used for classes, Robinson and Hunt Halls contains the School of Design. Other important buildings are Phillips Brooks House and Wadsworth House...