Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angel descended last year on unsuspecting Davidson College (enrollment: 920) near Charlotte, N.C. He was a lively, white-mustached angel with a resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt-and $400,000 under his wing. The cash proved that he was very much of this world, and so did his terms: the Presbyterian men's school could have the money for a sorely needed science building-if it raised another $700,000. It did. Last week, as workmen hauled shiny lab equipment into the new building, Manhattan Millionaire Charles Anderson Dana, back in his Park Avenue aerie, busily unrolled blueprints from other...
...Yardlings took the freshman meet 56 3/4 to 52 1/4 when B.U. had to forfeit the climatic two-mile relay. Covering the 600 in 1:15.6, the Crimson's Lowell Davidson set up new freshman Cage and meet records...
...Saturday night," announced George Davidson, as if he were addressing an audience of 200, "and everybody has something to do. But their diversions tempt me no more; tonight I shall stay in my room and study." He picked up a laundry box, wrote the name of a course on each side, and flipped it. "Shakespeare," he discovered after the box had landed, "Henry...
Before the five-mile varsity contest, the Crimson freshmen will face squads from B.U. and Providence in a three-mile race. Yardlings Ed Hamlin, Jim Bonnar, Lowell Davidson, and Glen Rogers should lead the Crimson to victory, but B.U., led by Bob Dias, could pull an upset...
...Interviewer Joyce Davidson, guesting on NBC's Today, provoked impassioned cries for her blonde scalp by remarking that "like most Canadians, I am indifferent to the visit of the Queen...