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There are two main reasons for the Stadium's ascendency in this realm. First, the Crimson annually schedules more home games than most other teams--often as many as six or seven a season. Second, and most important is the obvious reason: Harvard Stadium is the oldest structure of its kind in America...
John D. Lynch, the oldest member of the Council, has been around so many years that sheer momentum will probably elect him. A formerly CCA-endorsed candidate (he has since bolted), Lynch is noted for his reactionary stands on fluoridation, Communism, and spending. Some observers think Lynch has the least chance among the incumbents to gain re-election, because, they say, many of his supporters are dying...
...University's public relations campaign, its planning office, and its good-will ambassadors continue to meet Cambridge halfway, then it hopefully can expect similar overtures from the city. The crucial test will soon lie with the new Council and Mayor to see what they do with Cambridge's oldest most famous, and certainly very valuable institution -- Harvard. Tuesday's election could make a great difference along this line.Councillor JOSEPH A. DeGUGLIELMO '29 (right) confers with JUDSON T. SHAPLIN '42, former member of the School Committee...
Founded in 1409 by Germans who felt themselves discriminated against at Prague's Charles University, Leipzig became Germany's fourth oldest university (after Heidelberg, Cologne and the now-defunct Erfurt). It survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann Eck in 1519). By the 18th century it was sternly Protestant in name and happily tolerant in fact. Student Johann Wolfgang Goethe spent much of his time impressing girls in local wine cellars, called the place "Little Paris." "It was a delightfully individualistic school," recalls a West German professor...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Palmer Gaillard, 103, oldest member of the American Bar Association, a practicing lawyer for 78 years; in Mobile...