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Despite these gaps, however, Far Eastern studies at Harvard are strong by comparison with most universities, and the skeleton of an extensive research program does exist. Chinese history and Far Eastern languages and anthropology are already well-staffed, and the present East Asia Regional Studies program gives graduate students both an M.A. and a vestible look at the immense problems of the Far East. In addition, Harvard's physical plant is uniquely suited to pursue further research; a special library of over 250,000 volumes is available in the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
Leverett House was the victim of economy and the machine age yesterday, as 17 maids left their posts for the last time. A skeleton crew of two remains to clean House offices, common rooms and the libraries, but students will face the student porters next Monday. The eightman crew, armed with compressor tanks and detergent, will scour bathrooms, bedrooms, and studies weekly...
After 10 p.m. and on Sundays the Library will offer only minimum service. Only a skeleton staff will be employed, and the Woodberry Poetry Room will be closed...
...when Donham became dean, neither a strong faculty nor a leadership tradition existed. In fact, the school itself hardly existed. Scattered in every nook and cranny of the University, it had no money, a skeleton faculty, an inadequate curriculum, and an unrealistic approach to business education...
Just off Michigan Avenue in Chicago, workmen fixed an American flag to a steel girder, then signaled to a crane operator atop a 41-story building skeleton. While thousands of sidewalk superintendents looked on, the girder swiftly rose to the top (see cut), where it was fastened into place, "topping out" the $40 million Prudential Building, biggest skyscraper to be built in the U.S. in 15 years...