Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reed (570 students) and Bennington (309 students) keep grades but do not communicate them to students, using conferences to inform students about the quality of their work...
When the U.S. aircraft carrier Bennington sailed majestically into Sydney Harbor to help Australia celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7, 1942), its 2,970 officers and men were blithely unaware of one important matter: the University of Sydney would hold its annual Commemoration Day festivities, when students stage zany parades, pull off outlandish pranks, and badger citizens for donations to charity. Last week the proud Bennington became the victim of the most ignominious fate of all-capture by "pirates...
...ignominy began when ten students, dressed as pirates and armed with toy flintlocks, rowed over to the Bennington one cold dawn and simply marched up the gangway Without anyone's seeing them. Though they eventually ran into a few crewmen in the course of their wanderings, no one bothered to challenge them. One group of pirates ended up in a crew's quarters to collect money for a children's charity. Another group headed for the bridge, where a "good-natured bloke" turned on the public-address system so they could appeal for donations. Instead, "Pirate" Paul...
...episode hit the headlines, and there was at least one facetious reference to Pearl Harbor. It was all so embarrassing that the Royal Australian Navy felt obliged to announce that, of course, the United States Navy had known about the gag and simply played along. The men of the Bennington knew better, but decided to take their humiliation in stride. They collected $1,800 for the boys' charity and handed it over to Sydney's Lord Mayor Harry Jensen. His lordship was most grateful-and most sympathetic. After all, on the same day another group of students...
...rugby team brought its season record above the .500 mark yesterday by drubbing Cornell 32-3 at Bennington...