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When Harvard's President Nathan Marsh Pusey announced the launching of one of the most ambitious fund-raising campaigns ($75 million to $100 million for the undergraduate college alone) in educational history, he knew that he would have to answer one inevitable question: Why does Harvard, with the biggest university endowment in the U.S., need so much new money? Pusey's reply, which is now going out to alumni, is more than just a plea for Harvard. It is a dramatic description of the ever-expanding needs and challenges of U.S. higher education...
These names are deliberately transparent pseudonyms for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, in this fictionalized account by Novelist Meyer Levin of what he calls the "crime of our century." The real victim of Leopold and Loeb was 14-year-old Bobby Franks, and the dropped glasses gave them away. Only a brilliant defense by famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow saved them from hanging...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street from four to six o'clock on the first Sunday of each month, beginning November fourth. Members of the faculties and others holding Corporation appointments and their wives or husbands are cordially invited...
...Universe." But the following year he wrote to his old chief of staff Bedell Smith more thoughtfully: "I do not believe that you or I or anyone else has the right to state, categorically, that he will not perform any duty that his country might demand of him . . . Nathan Hale accepted the order to serve as a spy with extreme reluctance and distaste. Nevertheless he did so serve...
...begun as an anti-Communist eruption, the violence gradually changed complexion. The crowds began singling out foreigners. Europeans were dragged from their cars, beaten mercilessly while their cars were burned. By the morning of the second day, blood lust was running high. Along Kowloon's broad Nathan Road some rioters overturned and fired a taxi bearing Swiss Vice Consul Fritz Ernst and his wife. The escaping driver fell into the arms of the mob, who doused him with gasoline and cremated him on a bed of bubbling asphalt. The Ernsts escaped, but Mrs. Ernst died of burns 48 hours...