Word: briar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James F. Meeker '56 kept his pipe going for 77 minutes and 43 seconds last night to set a new local record for continuous pipe-smoking. He received a new briar and will get a free trip to the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the finals...
...plan also would give the Committee on General Education authorization to reduce general education requirements for students studying abroad, as the Committee deems appropriate. Under present arrangements study can be done in connection with the Sweet Briar groups in Geneva, Madrid, Paris, and Munich. These proposals will go before the faculty at their March meeting...
...would like to help applaud, with many encores, the Student Council proposal for foreign study during the junior year. I took my junior year abroad through the protection of the Sweet Briar Group to which the Harvard Romance Languages Department bravely entrusts its students for a year in Paris. It was, and still is, the only means for us to study abroad--a means not only limited to one department but inadequate for that department itself...
...Graduate School of Business. A registered Republican, Young is the son of Industrialist Owen D. Young (onetime Democratic elder statesman who supported Eisenhower last year). Squarejawed, stubborn Dean Young has the reputation of selecting able associates. He is a sailing enthusiast, a maker (and smoker) of fine briar pipes, and he has been called the best square-dance caller in New York's Herkimer County. The President said that Young would be elevated to Civil Service chairmanship as soon as the Senate confirmed the nomination, added that he would be invited to attend Cabinet meetings...
...Anne Gary Pannell, president of Sweet Briar College, warned last week that wartime marriages are on the increase. "We see the abandonment of promising college careers in midstream whenever the possibility of marriage is presented," she said...