Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Robert G. Albion graduated from Bowdoin in 1918, he had to choose between the newspaper business or a stretch at graduate work in history. "I took a look at the old boys in the city room, compared 'em with the professors mellowing at Bowdoin, and off I went to Harvard...
During the last war, Albion went to work writing the administrative history of the Navy, "following in Sam Morison's wake, a usual." Albion covered 50,000 miles, interviewed Admirals by their West Indian swimming pools, accumulated a squad of Wave secretaries, and filled 120 typescript volumes. He found the heat of Washington uncondusive to the writing up of all this material, however, and talked the Navy into moving the Waves up to his home city of Portland, Me. The stimulation of the salt air increased his productivity considerably and he shortly expects to bring out the first...
Mayor Michael J. Neville of Cambridge lectued to the students of Government 140a yesterday morning in the first of a projected series of talks by men in Massachusetts public affairs. Mayor Neville spoke on the work of the state legislature and citizens' participation in public affairs...
...long pass defense drill, with Bill Houry and Jimmy Noonan playing the part of John Clayton, opened the day's work. Then the varsity offense ran through a half-hour of passing and running drills against Dartmouth defenses...
Coach Valpey had some comments on the Dartmouth offense after going through Elmer Madar's scouting reports. "Clayton is one of the better quarterbacks in the country on T-formation work' he said. "Dartmouth's got a lot of good backs, and one of the best passing attacks in the East...