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Word: bettering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said he was pleased with Kilbridge's performance as dean, adding that he believes Kilbridge "is leaving the school in much better shape" than he found...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Kilbridge to Resign As Dean of GSD | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Class of '54, for better or worse, attended college during one of the more tranquil times in our country's history. In their 25th reunion questionnaire, many expressed their regret at attending college 15 years before the storm, just as some students today long for the activism and campus unrest their older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: 25 Years of Over-Achieving | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...undergraduates at Harvard today "are more polite and friendly," George Walcott '54, now a doctor, said with a smile. "Well, at least they're better groomed than they were 10 years ago," Weiner added. "We used to come back for football games, and there would be no one with short hair...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Class of '54 Meets For 25th Reunion | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...QUESTION Gordon poses today's listeners is--how much are your memories worth to you? For people who experienced rockabilly first- hand Gordon must seem at best a throwback, a rock-and-roll neanderthal. Such people would do better to dredge out their old bop records and bop to them than to Gordon's albums, modern engineering notwithstanding...

Author: By Bromide Kush, | Title: Rock and Roll Neanderthal | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...someone who has spent the better part of his professional life as a reporter, let me say that I was impressed, nay, awed at the way in which your reporter captured the intensity, majesty and viscosity of last Saturday's Crimson-Nieman tilt with the Soc. Dept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Don Zimmer | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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