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...major management realignment, Thompson's grand old man, Stanley Burnet Resor, 81, who spent 44 of his 53 years with the agency as president and chief executive officer, was finally retired as board chairman. By virtue of a decision to leave the chairman's spot vacant, the vice-chairmanships of two of Resor's top hands were also eliminated: Samuel Meek, 66, who has run Thompson's international operation for 36 years, and Henry C. Flower Jr., 64, a 33-year Thompson veteran. Both Flower and Meek will continue with the agency as directors and members...
...their work, mostly done between 1880 and 1910, came close to illustration, it was because they had a story to tell. As progress chuffed and shrieked across the West over newly laid railroad tracks, Remington explained what that story was. "I knew," he wrote, "that the wild riders and vacant land were about to vanish forever, and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. I began to try to record some facts around me, and the more I looked, the more the panorama unfolded...
...present priority system for to the new building, seniors, juniors, have first choice at vacant . Thus sophomores are forced to live Quincy auxiliary, Mather Hall, for one, and sometimes two years...
...signs. At each they were turned down; at each the landlord explained that the room had been leaned that morning or the night before. All along Beacon Street and Newbury Street the students hunted for a room until finally, after almost two days of rejection, Freeman realized that the vacant rooms were occupied one after another not by coincidence, but by prejudice...
Amos is sure that at least twice he was refused rooms because of his color. In one instance a landlord assured the international Student Association that he had three or four vacant apartments, but denied that any were available when Amos visited the building in person later that day. The Harvard School of Public Health last year studied the condition of graduate apartments. Accommodations were found so inadequate that the school purchased three apartment buildings on Park Drive, and furnished them for occupancy this fall. Currently 141 students, 71 foreigners and 70 Americans, live in the buildings...