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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lack of a tower has occasioned many attempts at construction of one by applied science majors in the House. The traditional Bunny of mysterious origin appears at important events (i.e. Leverett football games and dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College's Smallest, Leverett Offers Cohesive Units, Laissez-Faire, 'Spirit' | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...library, at the apex of the house triangle, is the largest physically and is quite comfortable. The lighting--long a source of complaint--was improved two weeks ago. Also available are several piano rooms, one of them in the tower, a photo dark room, billiard and ping-pong tables, a record listening room, and a chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Friendship Rests On Sincerity, Not On 'Hello' | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...Tower-struck freshmen will still complain about the building's squat, bulging appearance. But Latin-chalked facades do not an outhouse make, while big rooms and closeness seem to insure a satisfied full house. With a system of assignment to Claverly as indiscriminate as assignment to an A or F entry, the Hall should continue to serve its useful, respected purpose. There is nothing radical in a revolution that can achieve such ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Entry System Boosts Appeal, Erases Stigma of Claverly | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Calculations of the explosion's energy and effect are incomplete, but they were so great that the Atomic Energy Commission was forced to reclassify the previous tower shot (Nov. 1, 1952) as a misfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Five Hundred Hiroshimas | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...several hundred miles away from Kwajalein, somewhere in the U.S. proving ground in the Marshall Islands. In a precautionary rehearsal of a formal test shot from an Air Force bomber that will take place sometime in the next two weeks, U.S. scientists had exploded a thermonuclear device atop a tower. The force of the blast completely surprised them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Five Hundred Hiroshimas | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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