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...proctors for the first time are; in Freshman dormitories: Albert Damon '38, of Brookline; Eric W. Johnson '40, of Gladwyne, Pa.; James D. Malcolmson Jr. '40, of Larchmont, N. Y.; Roland A. Maxwell '40, of St. Albans, W. Va.; Douglas, Mercer '40, of Brookline; Phil C. Neal '40, of Oak Park, III.; Thomas H. E. Quimby '40, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Thomas W. Stephenson '37, of Wilmington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCTORS ARE ANNOUNCED | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

...Army got a good look at Louisiana: moss, bats, and dark, stagnant pools in forests of oak and pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...thought revolved. First, of course they were Heroes. Then the debunking-novel period arrived and they were alleged to have been ruffians, bullies, and blackguards. Then for a while everybody was so busy that gold stars grew tarnished and were forgotten. And now, forsooth, the boys in the oak picture-frames are suckers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF LETTER FROM THE CLASS OF 1917 | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...clock this morning--Registration in the Oak Room of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today's Events At The Meeting Of The Associated Harvard Clubs | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

Marvin P. Lazarus, of Albany, N. Y., A. B. Union College '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Joseph A. Mendenhall, of Nottingham, Pa., A. B. University of Delaware '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; David K. Robinson, of Royal Oak, Mich., A. B. Princeton '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; James M. Wilson Jr., of Tilton, Ga., A. B. Emory University '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Enno R. Hobbing, '40, of Reading, Pa., Herbert Parker scholarship; and Robert W. Putnam, of Palo Alto, Calif., A. B. Stanford University '40, Theophilus Parsons scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS IN COLLEGES OF NATION GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS TO LAW SCHOOL | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

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