Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston College High School's Billy Donlan chose Harvard over Notre Dame, and accepted a Harvard Club scholarship. He participated in football, baseball, and track and maintained an honor average at his high school...
Watertown High School will send two friends, Babe Simourian and Charlie Papalia, also expected to provide football material. The two chose Harvard because they "wanted to continue their scholastic friendship into college...
...Social Democrats, headed by Giuseppe Saragat, who chose democracy when Pietro Nenni led the rest of the Socialists into alliance with the Communists. Saragat has some 2,000,000 followers, mostly in the industrial north...
Exploding Verse. In the age of Tennyson, Hopkins' poetry no doubt seemed strange and obscure to the Jesuit editor who turned it down. It is not easy reading today. One reason is Hopkins' abrupt rhythm-"sprung rhythm," he called it, which he chose "because it is the nearest to the ... natural rhythm of speech." Another barrier between the casual reader and Hopkins' verse is his strange construction. He often used words out of their natural order, omitted connectives altogether. He also made up words (inscape, scapish, instress...
...Harvard chose to risk the financial lose, seeking to minimize it by such palliatives as scheduling weak, obscure opponents, and hoping for athletic plant endowment. The expedients have not been effective, for the schedule's core has necessarily remained a number of Ivy League colleges which, like Yale, talked much about deemphasis while doing the opposite, and the endowment has been meager. So long as this situation continues, Harvard's alternatives become buying teams versus dropping the sport altogether...