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Winner of the 1963 Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for his study sixteenth century satirists, Kaiser teaches four courses in comparative , including Humanities 115, thought and Literature of the Renaissance...
...Sise and Fred Noyes, improved on past performances, placing fifteenth and sixteenth, respectively. This gave Harvard fourth place in the cross-country, with a high point score of 91.7. The course was not long, but the snow was wet, and the running was slow. Dartmouth won the event...
...complex plot revolves around a couple of murders and a frantic search for, strangely enough, the Maltese Falcon, a sixteenth century jewel encrusted gold statue worth an estimated two million dollars. The film's most notable feature, however, is not the mystery of its plot but the awesomely rugged character of its hero, private detective Sam Spade...
Regular snow tires (which no longer whine) increase traction on snow-covered roads by 50%, but the scores of tiny metallic studs-protruding about one-sixteenth of an inch from the tread -increase the new tires traction on ice by at least 180% and reduce braking distance by 70%. Although many states have long-standing regulations against permanent metallic devices on tires, many others have amended their laws to permit the studs, which are designed to wear down at the same rate as the tread so as to minimize road damage. New York has just become one of a growing...
...local painters; he now concentrates more on prints and drawings, for which he has a good eye. His December exhibition makes the tenth anniversary of the gallery, quite an achievement in Cambridge, and it is one of the best. The show is made up largely of drawings from the sixteenth century on and includes fine examples attributed to Stradanus, Bercham, and Millais. His gallery also features prints and drawings by artists who have been over-looked by both history and inflation; drawings by late nineteenth century artists like Steinlen and Toorop are extremely interesting and very reasonably priced...