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Ever since the Houses started to sprout in the Charles River valley in the early 1930's, a gradual change has come over he roster of students living at College and in the Houses. Whether it was the House Plan itself, the Great Depression, or something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Seven Wonders | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Only two men entered the 155-pound singles but put on a worthwhile exhibition with Dave Snow defeating Bill Sprout by three seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oarsmen Pull Summer's Last Mile | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

Wherry--Burrowes, Clapp, Nilsson, Page. Compromise--Middendorf, Murphy, Preston, Savarit. 155-Pound Singles--Snow, Sprout. Novice Singles--Barroll, Bisbee, Brewer, Queeny. Junior Singles--Berg, Carpenter, Clement, Getchell. Senior Singles--Day, Dowd Eisenstein, Eldridge...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Sculling Trialists Bested by Excursion Boat and Bridge | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...known to his fellow Americans merely as a "nature writer." His short essay was published and sowed broadcast in the U.S. by fanatical anarchists of the Emma Goldman period without any effect whatever on our affairs. Not until the essay fell into the hands of Gandhi did the seed sprout to shake the British Empire. OTTO McFEELY Oak Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Word from Home. In Des Moines, canny State Representative Harold Nelson left a cigar box planted with corn sprouts atop his desk, felt confident that restless farmer-legislators would demand adjournment when the sprouts began to sprout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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