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...CHESTNUT HILL--On days like yesterday, two things about the game of softball become very clear...
...windows of more and more cars across the U.S. Is this a parody of overprotective parenting? Not according to the thousands of folks who have been buying the signs for $2 to $3 each and consider them useful protection for their children. Made primarily by Safety First Inc. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., the signs are selling especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic sense of humor have marketed alternative signs. Among the new offerings: nobody on board, child carries...
...weeks after Kay McNulty graduated from Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill College in 1942 with a degree in mathematics, she got a job at the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory as a human "computer," calculating artillery trajectories. For three years she did the kind of mind-numbing mathematical drudgery--punching numbers into a mechanical calculator and copying down the results--that in those days was measured in "girl hours." Then she was invited by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering to help J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly put the finishing touches on a new kind...
...CHESTNUT HILL--The Harvard women's hockey team enjoyed a post-Thanksgiving feast of cold Eagle last night, devouring an outmatched Boston College squad, 11-0, before 20 disgruntled spectators at McHugh Forum...
...enthusiasm for off-campus social life is apparently a result of the Massachusetts drinking age of 21. Strict enforcement of the drinking age on campus has caused students to seek their weekend fun elsewhere. And because B.C. police have no jurisdiction outside the campus of the Chestnut Hill school, administrators have taken it upon themselves to see that students obey the new laws...