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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been used to board students--including Ralph Waldo Emerson '21--now the whole house was hired out to a harpy who charged students $5 a month for room and meals during the Civil War. At one point Henry Adams, lately made an Assistant Professor, took lodgings there. This long spell of lowly service was broken for a while in the early 1900s when the House was made headquarters for visiting and resident preachers. The idea was mainly to give them room to meet students. How much room was needed is indicated by Phillips Brooks: "I have had two callers this...
...fields, to broaden my scope . . . People have scope, you know, they really do." Sipping a glass of sherry ("Its so good for your stomach"), Marilyn disclosed that she would like "to play some strong dramatic parts . . . like Grushenka, in The Brothers Karamazov . . . I don't know [how to spell it]. I only hope...
...only the local witch doctor, up to his innocent tricks. His usual voo had lost its do, and in the emergency, he had invoked, by making a few passes with needle and thread, the familiar spirit of that infinitely greater magician who has cast his spell upon the entire world-Walt Disney. Indeed, not since the Age of Fable, not since Mage Merlin and Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing...
...primary reason for the action, Van Vleck cites the fact that few students are aware that engineering occupies a large part of the Division. "Many alumni wonder if we are still interested in engineering. By giving the department a new and more precise name we are attempting to spell out explicitly what we are doing," says the Dean...
COLORADO Like many plainsmen, Fred Schwartzwalder was enormously impressed when he first saw the Rocky Mountains. That was 30 years ago, after Fred and his young wife Martha moved to Golden, Colo, from the prairies of Iowa. Schwartzwalder fell completely under the spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday he spent hiking and exploring the rugged hills around Golden. He often brought home samples of curious rocks to show his wife and to decorate their meager basement apartment. In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated-a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption...