Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally managed to boost themselves out of baseball's sociological basement. Third Baseman Ossie Virgil, native of the Dominican Republic, was called up from the minors, became the first Negro to play for the Tigers. Sole survivor from the old days of lily-white big-league ball: the Boston Red Sox, who have yet to find room on their roster for a Negro...
Despite the rigor of their studies and the dearth of diversion in pious Boston, students still managed to exercise their time-honored right to cut classes...
Morrison notes that by 1650 students had begun to cut lectures "in order to attend the quarterly courts at Cambridge, the June fair at Watertown, and the spring election in Boston--the nearest equivalent to holidays that the Bay Colony offered...
...will graduate with honors. Four will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. They are Anga Boass of Sherborn, Biology; Mrs. Dorothy Milman Merman of Great Neck, N.Y., English; Julia Otis of Takoma Park, Md., History and Literature; and Mrs. Gabriella Pintus Schlesinger of Boston, English...
...dormitory will be called Pennypacker Hall, Dean Leighton disclosed yesterday, named after Henry Pennypacker of the Class of 1888, until 1933 the all-powerful chairman of the Committee on Admissions. Pennypacker, a mustached Copey-looking man, was headmaster of the Boston Latin School from 1910 to 1920, in which year he moved across the river to direct Harvard admissions for 13 years...