Word: 78th
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra Royal Society of Ushers recently announced its choices for the worst performances of the BSO's 78th season, which ended last week. The BSORSU is composed of the 16 Harvard undergraduates who usher the Friday-Saturday concert series...
...scores of the Cooperative Tests of the Educational Records Bureau in American History, a score which would put an independent school student in the 78th percentile ranking would put him into the 99th percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...
With some 80 of his World War II comrades in arms gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria, little-faded General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, now board chairman of Sperry Rand Corp., observed his 78th birthday. After the banquet, the assembled brass watched a nostalgic film of the Pacific war, heard an Army-supplied double quartet blend voices in Old Soldiers Never Die. "At my age," allowed the general, "every birthday is a challenge...
Today's game was also the 78th anniversary of the inaugeration of the Big Three round-robin. Last year's victory by Harvard over the Tigers helped cause a stalemate in the H-Y-P series...
Behind Stephenson, in 63rd place, was Churchill, whose time was 60:51 over the six mile, up-and-down 69th in 62:12 minutes. Peter Berle, who covered the last placed 77th. Roger Mitchell crossed the finish line in 78th...