Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the Program for Harvard College, Augustus S. Cobb '07 has donated an addition to the William Pennoyer Bequest, one of the College's oldest scholarship funds...
General examinations in History and Literature will be spread over a two day period this year, William R. Taylor '43, assistant professor of History and Literature, announced last night. Previously the department has held a single four-hour exam...
...Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...
...Soon after riding on a white horse to his inaugural on a miserable day, General William Henry ("Old Tippecanoe") Harrison got caught in the rain while out walking, died of pneumonia one month after taking office...
...gaping hole in the belly of Alexis St. Martin, ig, a French Canadian voyageur. For the rest of his days he had a hole in his abdominal wall leading directly into his stomach. The blast that let the daylight into St. Martin's stomach enabled U.S. Army Surgeon William Beaumont, in years of experiments, to shed the first light on the mysteries of human digestion...