Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a redheaded Texan with an easy smile and casual manner, had spent more than half of his life at Harvard when he agreed, in 1949, to make the move to Northampton to become the fifth president (all of them have been males) of Smith College...
...careers in education behind him, Benjamin Wright prepares to begin his third. In so doing, he will be completing his own personal westward government that began with the migration from Cambridge to Northampton almost ten years ago. From scholarship to administration and back to scholarship again. Westward the course of empire...
...Dyke Benjamin fulfilled Crimson hopes, running to a distinguished victory and a record time of 25:21 on the Franklin Park course. Yale's Bachrach trailed Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald for half of the race, but finished nearly half a minute behind the Crimson captain...
...half mile of the race, they had succeeded in spitting up the leaders. At this point, however, when the Crimson runners were feeling the pace, Yale's Carroll and Morrison slowly moved up into fourth and seventh places, passing the point-makers. Fitzgerald, who had run himself out following Benjamin eary in the race, fell back to ninth, giving the harriers sixth, eighth, ninth, and twelfth places...
...great race by all five of our boys," said Coach Bill McCurdy. "I've never seen as impressive a performance by seniors," he said, referring to Benjamin, Willie Thompson, and Jim Schlaeppi. "One more place by any one of our men would have won the meet...