Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlow distinguished himself with their place prize of $10 in the essay contest. His proposal was for a central dining hall in the shape of a St. Andrews cross, to be located at the corner of Holyoke and Mr. Auburn streets, Several weeks after the publication of his essay President Lowell announced that $100,000 had been allocated for the construction of such a central hall...
Commager won this year's Winthrop Sargent Prize for the best essay "relating to Shakespeare." Frautschi ran on the 1950 freshman cross country team and was athletic chairman for Kirkland House this year. Lampert held an Honorary National Scholarship during his four years here...
...fortunate enough to hear the 96-year-old William H. Jackson describe in a lecture how he made Colorado's famous Mountain of the Holy Cross picture in 1873 [TIME, May 31]. It's only a minor detail in your story, but I cannot resist pointing out that Mr. Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent...
WILLIAM A. CROSS...
...business; the third was a former Secretary of the Army, and a substantial pillar of liberal education in his own right, President Gordon Gray, 45, of the University of North Carolina (see box). Through the eight weeks they read transcripts, studied FBI reports, questioned witnesses, listened to examinations and cross-examinations by counsel. Then, one day last month, they were ready to answer the question: Is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who directed the creation of the world's first atom bomb a decade ago, now to be denied access to classified information because he is a risk...