Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Court tennis, absent from the College's athletic scene for 36 years, will return a week from this Saturday when an informal three-man team meets Yale at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club for the intercollegiate challenge bowl...
Harvard's late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded professor, but he did have occasional verbal lapses. One day he was cautioning a student about a theory of logic. "You must take it with a grain of er . . . um ... ah ..." For almost a minute, Whitehead groped for the word, until the student suggested. "Salt. Professor...
Next fall, in homes and taprooms across the nation, dials will click and the country's top football teams will battle back and forth across a million television screens. But one Gridiron Classic will be conspicuously absent. The Harvard-Yale game, an ivy-covered football venerable, will not be televised. In the fact of tentative advances by the NCAA, the University has held its ground and again refused any and all offers to put Harvard football on a coast-to-coast video hook...
...vote of 114-2 (Beaty absent), the faculty condemned Beaty's attacks as being "without any foundation in fact." Seven of Dallas' most prominent Protestant ministers wrote to President Lee, expressing "outraged Christian conscience" over Beaty's "inflammatory and divisive" writings. Finally, a group of S.M.U. law professors took a long and belated look at Beaty's book, denounced it as a collection of "spurious doctrines and bigoted theories of racial and religious prejudice...
...Flying Squad. Back home in St. Louis, the Cards have a thoroughly renovated stadium. There is a new tile drainage system for the playing field, and every tired old seat has been replaced or repaired. Outfield fences have been shorn of advertising (even Budweiser signs are absent) and painted a deep, simple, hitter's green. Among other things, there are 16 luxurious boxes where, for $2,500 a season, upper-bracket fans can whoop it up with waiter service; all 16 are already rented for the season...