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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This incident, according to Samuel Eliot Morison '07, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History who spoke last night on "The History of Harvard," happened during the first year of Harvard's 312 year existence, and not many years later "a fifteen hole" outhouse was constructed on the location of the present University Hall...
Ernie Ransome, a quiet-spoken and well-informed young man, spoke briefly and to the point concerning Princeton football. He put it off the record, but it was good-for the Princeton men in the house. He also had kind words for Columbia, which scrimmaged the Tigers almost to a draw last month...
That was last May. Last week Laszlo Rajk (pronounced Royk) spoke again in calm and measured accents. What he said might have been a complete fabrication-but it made an interesting tale. For five hours, before the Hungarian People's Court which was trying him for subversion and espionage, he told a closely detailed story of 18 years of double life as a police informer, traitor, spy and conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year...
Tongue for Imperialism? Nehru's views were not shared by many of the 36 legislators who took part in the argument. Most of them spoke in English. They offered more than 300 amendments. Southerners were most vehement. They hooted and jeered at pro-Hindi spokesmen, denounced "Hindu imperialism." Madras Representative Ramalingam Chettiar complained: "The way north Indians are trying to dominate us and dictate to us is galling ... I have been in Delhi for two years, and no north Indian has so far invited me even once for social functions, just because I don't know Hindi...
Waugh and Mosteller spoke at the Symposum on the new Mark III Calculator which Harvard built for the Navy. The Symposium was hold from September...