Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again & again, the word would come from somewhere: "Only a couple of hours more now." Again & again, there were fresh delays: Tempers were short; arguments flared over what might have been done. At last diggers, deep in the shaft, began to tunnel laterally toward Kathy's iron prison. Whitey was only a few shovelfuls away from the well pipe, when he was hauled to the surface, his face angry and set. There was water in his boots. Slowly at first, then faster, water poured into the tunnel. Digging stopped...
Leverett House is all set for its DP student. The first House to announce that members' contributions had passed the $600 minimum, Leverett has collected $790 toward the maintenance of one of the seven displaced persons who will study at Harvard next year...
...Fish, Flesh, and Foul" is a sketchy treatment of a towering theme (the natural animal cruelty of the human species toward its young). Richard Webster's discussion of a Catholic scholar's views on the supernatural seems unnecessarily esoteric, especially the final note of doom that bids us all study the Churchman carefully against the day when goblins will once more roam the earth...
Freshmen will be canvassed tonight to give a minimum of $1 toward the support of the College Displaced Persons program. At least one solicitor will cover each entry in all Yard and other freshman balls...
None but the last of these suggestions would seriously cut into House or Faculty budgets. And they would start the College on its way toward a day when "The Students' View" of, let us say, "Harvard Education 1953" would be a much brighter view...