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...Harvard Vanguard, a monthly, ten page, mimeographed, oak-tag bound magazine, which made its first appearance this week, is the new venture of the John Reed Society, College Marxist discussion group...
...interested, beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
Other '45 men elected to the Committee in order of their total number of votes were Richard W. Mechem of Washington, Peter Garland of Buzzards Bay, James E. McNulty, Jr. of Oak "Park, Illinois, Donald W. Richards of Providence, Rhode Island, John W. Fisher of Weston, Frank D. Bixler of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Robert T. P. Storer, Jr. of Cambridge...
Bears who celebrated last week on Berkeley's green, oak-groved hills above San Francisco Bay, found an alma mater with hundreds in uniform. In the sweeping, serene Hearst Greek Theater, they heard Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish draw a Paul Bunyanesque portrait of The American...
...Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl...