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When 384 members of the Class of 1929 registered for the fall term of 1925 they found Harvard like America was energetically building in an era of prosperity; three new dormitories in the Yard had been completed the spring before and a fourth--Strauss--was just off the drafting board. The walls of McKinlock were already standing beside the Charles, plans for Memorial Church were being drawn up, and the basement was laid for the new Fogg Museum...
...When, in 1949, † AECommissioner Lewis Strauss* proposed a vigorous attempt to build an H-bomb (after the Russians exploded their first A-bomb), "Dr. Oppenheimer strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb on moral grounds, on grounds that it was not politically desirable," as well as because the H-bomb program would be a drain on the orderly development of the fission bomb program. Said the report: "Until the late spring of 1951, he questioned the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb efforts then in progress...
...Chairman Strauss and Oppenheimer have a professional relationship besides the atom: Oppenheimer is director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Strauss is president of its board of trustees...
Also receiving honorary doctorates of Law, in addition to Pusey and Griswold, will be Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University, and Wesley A. Sturges, Dean of Yale Law School...
...present state, La Ronde is neither as daring as publicity would indicate, nor as funny. Its ingenious sets of Vienna in 1900, however, plus Oscar Strauss' waltz "Love Makes the World Go Round" add a romantic flavor to the film, and Schnitzler's carnival of love emerges pleasantly, if not spectacularly...