Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the ten assistant professors were given their euphemistic "terminating appointments" at the end of June's first week, many students had left Cambridge for the summer. The reality of their loss did not strike home to others because the names of the fallen were necessarily screened from an unearned public disgrace. But even then the shock was great enough to startle a protesting group of students in English into action, and to elicit a sharp defence of sound undergraduate teaching from Phi Beta Kappa. Now the issue seems to be pressing more heavily on students' minds. They cannot help...
...documents and books of Mr. Lamont's collection, a number of which are unique, "provide a picture of the summer of 1588 so vivid and so complete that the gift may well induce a reappraisal of the story of the Armada," the library staff reported...
...year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached at the three big holiday services, as near to being a rabbi as a female might be. Last summer, at Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion, she was the first woman anywhere to pass a course of studies for the rabbinate...
...many ways I'm glad to be back in America," commented Quentin Roosevelt '41 last night after telling some of the hair raising experiences he had this summer while travelling in far-off China...
Wilford Cook Saeger '04, whose signature graced tens of thousands of Bursar's Cards, has resigned as Bursar because of ill health, after holding the position for twelve years. Saeger has been kept from his work in Lehman Hall since early in the summer because of illness...