Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945, his friends discussed plans to establish the Roosevelt Scholarships, an American counterpart to the Rhodes Scholarships. Students from all over the world would be brought to the United States for graduate study, just as the Rhodes awards annually bring men to Oxford in England. Nothing has ever come of this living memorial...
...Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics at Harvard, and William H. Neale, his counterpart at Yale, take this as part of their regular fall programs. They are used to acting on the grand scale required by the House and College intra-murals...
...average Holy Cross man also believes, probably correctly, that he has to work harder scholastically than his Cambridge counterpart. Six courses per term are a normal requirement, with little leeway, even in the upper classes, in choice of electives...
...Cherokees] had saved the life of Andrew Jackson by driving his tomahawk into the skull of a Creek warrior who had Jackson at his mercy. When Andrew Jackson became President ... he repaid this debt by ordering the Cherokee removal. So you see that even celluloid cliches have their counterpart in real life...
Aunleted by the officers of the H.Y.R.C., Radcliffe girls met yesterday afternoon in Moors Hall to form an Annex counterpart of the male Republican Club. Although the organizational meeting did not attract enough girls to make the club legal under the Radcliffe charter which requires 20 members, club officers believe that they will have the required number when they bring their petition before the Council on Thursday...