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...been other aspects to the job. "If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified," said President Edward Hoiyoke on his deathbed in 1769. "let him become president of Harvard College." The mortification has come in part from the nation, which has always insisted on treating Harvard as a patch of alien soil. As far back as 1722, under the name of Silence Dogood. Ben Franklin was blasting it as a place where students learned little more than how to "enter a Room genteely . . . and from whence they return, after abundance of trouble and Charges, as great Blockheads as ever...
...early months in 1941 did little to help the course reduction program. While students pleaded "Pass me, please!" on their blue books, the draft daily carried away its share of tutors. Pressure was on to get a degree and get it quick. As it became increasingly difficult to patch the system with temporary measures, and to hold uniform control, the Faculty voted in 1942 to give the power of course reduction to the individual departments by allowing credit for tutorial...
...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
...democratic center. Strong enough to gain from dissension, patient enough to wait for chaos, the Communists are still neither able nor willing to take power legally. The far right is imposing enough to harass, but too weak to be a threat. Only the Christian Democrats have the chance to patch together a parliamentary majority...
...girl is pretty Rose Martin, a blue-eyed brunette who comes from a coal patch in western Pennsylvania. The Main...