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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation of the Negro is American Schools is improving," William E. Harrison '34, associate editor of the Boston Chronicle told a meeting of the Young Progressives in the Nobel Room of PBH last night. He would make no predictions, however, as to when the condition would be righted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrison Claims Negro Education System Improved | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...typical scene of the novel is London in the blackout of 1942; the relations of human beings to each other have become fragmentary, indefinable and constantly subject to shock. To the apartment of attractive Stella Rodney comes a visitor known to her only as Harrison. He tries to argue her into being seduced and fails. He makes fantastic charges about Stella's friend and faithful lover, Captain Robert Kelway, and, for a time, fails to make the fantastic believable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contemporary Treason | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...What Harrison claims to know is that the admirable Captain Kelway is dealing with the enemy. This is incredible in a man like Kelway, who was wounded at Dunkirk and has responsible duties at the War Office. But Harrison is clever; the drop of suspicion that he injects remains to corrode a happy love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contemporary Treason | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Class. The terrible human lesson that all three-Harrison, Kelway and Stella Rodney-have to learn is in the peculiar contemporary meanings of treason. Who is to be trusted, and why, and how far? It is appropriate that each of Miss Bowen's characters is engaged in secret work, for each is mysterious to the other. But before the end it is clear that each represents an important type of modern personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contemporary Treason | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Third Period: Scoring-Abbot (Huntington), 12:32. Penalties-Anderson (charging), Harrison (tripping), W. Riley (tripping...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Loses To Big Green In 4-3 Battle | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

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