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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match that coach Edo Marion called "too close for comfort," the varsity fencing team downed a tough and determined M.I.T. squad, 16 to 11, last night in Walker Memorial Gymnasium. A 7-2 victory in sabre and a 5-4 margin in epee counterbalanced a 4-5 defeat in foil for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Beat M.I.T. Squad, 16-11 | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

Before a small but noisy crowd, the varsity wrestling team staged an impressive comeback last night, sweeping the last four matches to defeat a powerful Springfield squad, 15 to 9, at the I.A.B...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Wrestlers Sweep Crucial Matches, Beat Strong Springfield Team, 15-9 | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...sure whether Gertrude regretted her brave words. Some critics maintain that she never recovered from the defeat. In any case, she left education behind at the age of twenty-six. In the spring of 1902 she joined Leo in England...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most Brilliant Women Student | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

...When the lackluster Detroit Red Wings shambled through a 5-0 defeat at the hands of the New York Rangers and fell to within a point of the National Hockey League cellar, Coach Sid Abel took quick action, socked 14 of his 18 players with $100 fines for what he called the worst Detroit performance in 20 years. ¶ Terry Brennan, rudely fired last December as head football coach at Notre Dame despite a winning career record (32-18), turned his back on a clutch of other college offers, announced at a testimonial dinner in Chicago that he was joining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Benjamin Rowland, Jr., professor of Fine Arts, questioned the value of having a non-concentrator studying intensely some small segment of science. "This seems to defeat the whole purpose of a General Education course, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposals for Nat Sci Meet Varied Reception | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

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