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...first Secretary of Defense; Pierre L'Enfant, the French-born engineer who designed the city of Washington, also served as a peacetime major in the Army engineers; Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, sometime lieutenant-colonel in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War; General Jonathan Wainwright of Corregidor. On a brooding hillock General John J. Pershing lies in lonely aloofness. Another small knoll is occupied by the grave of Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur; near by, a plot is reserved for his son. Humbler graves reflect the grimness of war and the greatness of American history: "James Parks...
...William Wainwright, who is in charge of urban renewal for the league's Cambridge chapter, asserted that the University has not only failed to aid City Hall planners in their attempt to may a new and better Cambridge, but has gone ahead with its own building plans without even consulting the city...
...ridiculous for them to build helterskelter and not cooperate with the city at all," Mrs. Wainwright said. As one of the University's "decisions based on whim" she named the Shady Hill housing development, which the Administration proposed last spring as an apartment house to be located near the Divinity School for Faculty families...
...Wainwright criticized Harvard for having no planning board of its own to direct the University's future development and to correlate this growth with that of the city. She said she would initiate a committee in the near future "to explore ways to get more action from Harvard and from M.I.T...
After some difficulty, and by unknown means, the faculty discovered that on the night of March 22 one Wainwright Foster had been guilty of conduct toward a certain George English which was "insulting and irritating in both words and actions." Foster, who seemed the aggressor, thereafter challenged English to a duel that same evening. As Mr. English was not one to go off half-cocked, he refused to defend his honor that evening, but promised to do so the next morning if Mr. Foster insisted. Foster was very insistent, and seconds were duly appointed--a Mr. Bullard...