Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...
Johnson pitched perhaps the finest game of his college career, holding the Elis to just five hits, and allowing only one baserunner to get as far as third...
...Class of '59 had several other distinctions. It was the last Class to escape the $10 admission application fee. It was not, however, fortunate enough to escape a tuition increase of $450 during its undergraduate career, from $800 to $1250, an unparalleled tuition rise for one Harvard class. Harvard was also the first class in which the Advanced Standing Program was implemented. Although Advanced Standing did not have a large beginning in the Class of '59, the Program has seemed a successful one, and appears to be playing an increasingly larger part in the composition of the College...
...into the Sea of Life. We have spent many happy hours smashing bottles over thy prow, proud ship, even going so far as to remove the figurehead and install a bottle-opener." The bottle-smashing was over, and as President Conant handed out the 655 first diplomas of his career, the Class could well ponder the uncertain seas ahead.DEAN LEIGHTON...
Monro categorized the change in three main themes, emphasizing first that students at the College now have an increasing quality of academic ability. He told about 200 alumni and their wives that a college career is no longer the end of the road educationally. At least 80 per cent of today's senior class--about twice as many as in 1934--will go on to graduate school, he said...