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Militarism and Harvard were recently thrown into the came wastebasket by that dyspeptic surveyor of the preparatory school, Porter Sargent '96, writing the yearly preface to his "Handbook of Private Schools." The latest of the last straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only...
Lowell, who got Yaleman Edward Harkness to endow the magnificent Georgian houses along the Charles River (see cut), was not very tactful with many alumni. He had a habit of throwing their letters into the wastebasket unanswered...
...last week hundreds of special pleaders had caught onto the fact that their money was as good as any department store's-and many a newspaper saw itself being turned into a soapbox. The news columns were easily policed, for publicity could still go into the wastebasket. But where should the line be drawn on such editorial advertising...
...know what Mr. Atkinson would do with our plans," declared Professor Gropius, he would throw them in the wastebasket. Most of his plans and those of the regional planning board intend merely to modify that ugly box in the middle of the Square but the only hope for solution is by a complete rebuilding of the Square. As it stands now, Harvard Square is one of the worst in the country...
...mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...