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Yale College may soon follow Harvard's example and discard anti-female barriers of strictly male education if a proposal to admit women made by two deans at a Faculty meeting Wednesday is accepted by the College Executive Committee and the Corporation...
...stop testing hydrogen bombs if other nations would agree, Nixon said: "I respectfully submit that for us to have followed this advice would have been not only naive but dangerous to our national security. To have taken such action would have been like telling police officers that they should discard their weapons, provided the lawbreakers would throw away their machine guns...
...Capone bodyguard, Sam was the first to discard the accustomed violin case, carried his Tommy gun in a golf...
...late great Walter Johnson of the lackluster Washington Senators. The "Big Train" was a self-confident competitor who occasionally went so far as to serve up fat ones to hitters suffering from nerve-racking slumps. But throwing at a batter was unthinkable. Johnson never even waited for umpires to discard scuffed balls; as soon as he saw one he tossed it aside, for fear it might force him to throw his fast one wild and injure the man at the plate...
...Yale calendar committee has decided to discard the plan by which the college opened this year on September 14, Thanksgiving vacation lasted one day, and mid-year exams will begin two days after Christmas vacation...