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This election was the second held since the Harvard Chapter found it necessary to abandon the peace-time system of selection. For the duration there will no longer be a Junior Eight or Senior Sixteen. All men will be selected upon the basis of course work completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 40 MADE MEMBERS OF PHI BETA KAPPA | 3/25/1943 | See Source »

...Sixteen, and not six, should be the figure in the sentence reading - "His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day." Two daily shifts of eight hours each are contemplated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Chaplain (Major) Dan A. Laning, former assistant division chaplain of the 36th Infantry Division and now an instructor at the Chaplain School. The graduation address was delivered by the 'Reverend Dr. Willard I. Sperry, dean of the Harvard Theological Divinity School, Following the presentation of diplomas to the sixteen section leaders, who received the tokens for the members of their sections, the exercise were ended by the blessing pronounced by Chaplain (Capt.) Donald R. Brownelt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army and Navy Program to Establish 5 More Training Schools at Harvard | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

...Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/24/1943 | See Source »

...another trail. The Indians discovered and resolved to catch him in his own trap. So they collected their warriors to the number of 85 or 90 and surrounded the spot; they then by means of a cord exploded the shell. Down goes Capt. Rains with a Sergt. Corpl. and sixteen men. On coming to the place he found an old "Koon" (sic) dead. Whilst he was kicking or turning the Koon over with his foot the Indians rose up and fired. The men behaved very handsomely, at once formed and extended. The chief of the party was twice seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1943 | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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