Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final Crimson score was registered in the seventh on a walk, a sacrifice, and a single by George Harrington. But by this time many of the spectators had lost interest in the contest and were busy fighting for places at the water fountain. So far as this reporter could see, everybody went home happy except for an elderly man named Ethan Allen and several little boys in blue...
...institution. The Class of '59 was the last class to have the pleasure of having a "Miss Radcliffe." After Miss Radcliffe '59 had been chosen, the Radcliffe Administration ruled that Radcliffe girls would no longer be allowed to participate in the event. Apparently, involvement in a college-wide beauty contest had not been beneficial to the later academic standing of several of the girls selected...
Three weeks ago, the varsity defeated this same Yale team by a score of 5 to 3, in a notably unexciting contest. Actually the winners were considerably off their best form on this particular day, but still they managed to stay in control most...
This year's running of the oldest intercollegiate contest in the country, now 108 years old, puts special pressure on the Crimson boat since a Yale victory would tie the series which now stands 47-46 in the Crimson's favor. The last tie occurred in 1940 when the Crimson evened the series at 39 victories each...
...contest sprang from an attempt by three segregationist members of the six-member Little Rock school board to fire 44 high school teachers (TIME, May 25) accused not of professional failure but of holding "imprudent" attitudes toward segregation. Shocked at the suggestion, the board's three moderate members walked out, began boycotting board sessions. Around them rallied some of Little Rock's most respected groups, including the P.T.A. Council, the ministerial alliance, and the Chamber of Commerce board...