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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students from seven eastern women's colleges attending the first post-war session of the Summer School will live together in Radcliffe dormitories under a "special relationship" arrangement, Director George W. Adams announced last night...
...Treason charges against two other U.S. citizens who broadcast for the Nazis during the war were dropped by the U.S. last week. The case against Constance Drexel, 64 (no kin to the Philadelphia Drexels), was dismissed for lack of evidence; the indictment against Frederick W. Kaltenbach, onetime Dubuque, Iowa high-school teacher, was dismissed after Russian authorities notified the U.S. that he died in a Soviet concentration camp...
...Marlboro, N.Y., the farmhouse of the late Frederic W. Goudy, famed designer of printing types, was put up for auction. Till the day of the sale, Goudy's family had hoped that somebody might offer to make a "shrine" of the place, but nobody had come forward. Then Ralph C. Coxhead, manufacturer of VariTyper machines (widely used by publishers whose typesetters go on strike), got the farm on an $18,000 bid. His plan: to "perpetuate it as a shrine...
First, it was a faculty committee, not Dean Watson, which made the decisions about the Band. This committee, the Committee on Student Activities of which I am chairman, consists of Professors F. C. Packard, P. S. Wild, Jr., G. W. Woodworth, Dr. D. M. Little, Dean Watson and myself. The committee has general supervision over undergraduate organizations and activities outside of athletics. Dean Watson's job is to carry out the decisions and general policies adopted by the committee. Whatever praise or blame there may be for the decision in the case of the Band or any other organizations beings...
...poorer place without it. It has given pleasure to thousands of Harvard students and alumni and deserves their generous support. I hope and believe that ways can be found for getting more money for the Band and that it will receive the support it has so richly earned. W. J. Bender Dean of the College