Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...
...surprising that the question of a war memorial should have come to the present issue as between a simple but dignified recording of the names of the dead in the Memorial Church and a building in which a similar record would he associated with some daily use by the student body. There are obvious alternatives on the merits of which there is a natural difference of opinion...
...Harvard here of the first World War, with every intention to keep it as a Freshman dormitory; but when the Houses were built it became a part of Leverett. The old Hemenway Gymnasium on the site of Littauer was built as the finest gymnasium of its time for the use of the entire student body. In half a century it became wholly outmoded. It was closed in 1935 and was soon torn down, though its name was given to the present Hemenway Gymnasium, with the approval of the donor's family. The present Hunt Hall of the Graduate School...
These are only a few striking examples of the abandonment or changed uses of Harvard buildings, whether memorials or not; but a case even more to the point is that of Memorial Hall, a memorial of Harvard men who died in the Civil War. The great dining hall, now abandoned as such owing to a change in the eating habits of undergraduates, and the subsequently added Sander Theatre were certainly "utilities"; but the heart of the memorial was the Transept. Until after the first few years of the present century it had the aspect of a sanctuary. Those who passed...
Other discussion ranged around the organization of a Freshman debating team, a one-a-week movie program, and rules for the use of the new television set to be formally installed and made ready for use today...