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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are the reasons advanced by the Women's Education Association for the union of the Annex and the University and they are certainly sound and important. It would be difficult to state just how such a union would be viewed by undergraduates. The idea of a co-educational college like those of the West probably first comes to mind, but such a change in the college would probably not happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give an Inch | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

When Montgomery mimeographed his correspondence on the Schlesinger issue, it reached 16 pages. Still unsatisfied, he spoke of "sophistry and evasion." His conclusion: "a sorry state of affairs...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Craig K. Comstock, S | Title: 'Veritas' Hits 'Red Infiltration' at Harvard | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...specialist's rooms have taken so long to rearrange that their usefulness as educational exhibits is disturbed for an unreasonably long period of time. In the areas that the Peabody can revise only when it gets the proper funds, such as the African and Oceanic halls, the present state is deplorable and quite untenable...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Peabody Collection: Anthropologists' Delight | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

...graduate Bowdoin prizes, first place in the Humanities went to Anthony E. Farnham 3G for a study entiled "The Concept of 'Feyned Love' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Larry A. Sieden-top 2G won first prize in Social Sciences with his "Jean Bodin, Sovereignty, and the State: An Essay in Iconoclasm." "The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan: The Impact of Science on Politics," by Harold Fruchtbaum 1G, took first place in the Natural Sciences division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robbins, Farnham, Fruchtbaum, Siedentop Win Bowdoin Awards | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

...that, even the board had misgivings, got special permission from the state legislature to raise $200,000 by selling short-term warrants to its Houston bank. As citizens cheered, the board voted to reopen the schools and even to boost the tax rate next fiscal year to $1.75. But trouble was far from over: the bank flatly refused to buy Aldine's warrants, and the schools stayed closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Money Over Mind | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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