Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest and most expensive items in the vast art collection of the late William Randolph Hearst was a complete 12th century Spanish monastery that once stood in Sacramenia, a village near Segovia. In his imperious way, Hearst bought the monastery, had it dismantled stone by stone, and shipped (in 35,000 pieces weighing 2,500 tons) to the U.S. It cost Hearst more than half a million dollars and ten years of effort to get his treasure home. By that time, even Hearst was reluctant to spend the additional sum it would cost to rebuild the monastery...
Crimson captain Hal Gerry was the first Ivy Leaguer to finish in the IG4A championship cross country run at Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y., yesterday. Running 14th, he led the varsity to 12th place in team standings, three notches higher than last year...
Michigan State, which copped the Big Ten title last week, was the winning team, barely edging a surprising Pittsburgh septet, 82 to 84. Cornell, the top Ivy League team, placed fifth with 147 points, Yale was 11th with 309, and the Crimson 12th with 316. Princeton, with 608 points, was the last of the 22 teams to finish...
Sidelight interest will center on the individual performances of Cornell's Jack Rosenbaum and the varsity's Hal Gerry, one-two finishers in the Heptagonals. Last year's Eastern champion, Jim Olive of Army, could finish no better than 12th in this national meet. The Army team, however, which led the Eastern teams, finished second in the IC4A standings...
Social Sciences 1 was 12th, with 370 students; Social Sciences 3 was 21st, with 241 students; 25th was Humanities 3, with a total of 235 students; Nat. Sci. 6 was 27th with an even 200; Nat. Sci. 4 was 31st, with 189; Nat. Sci. 1 was 32nd, with 172; and Soc. Sci. 5 was 35th, with 155 students...