Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Project Sherwood, the secret U.S. program to achieve controlled thermonuclear (atomic fusion) power, came ever so slightly into the open last week. After attending a secret conference of 350 Sherwood men at Gatlinburg, Tenn., Dr. Edward Teller, leading authority on thermonuclear processes, delivered a complicated paper before an unclassified meeting of the American Nuclear Society at Chicago...
...William Edward Burghardt Du Bois did more than any other Negro to challenge Washington's leadership and to give democracy a meaning in the twentieth century that conforms to that of Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the Washington school of thought and advocated the right to vote, civic equality and the education of youth according to ability. "By every civilized and peaceful method," he urged, "we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration...
Early in March, the varsity mile relay team, which included future captain Vernon Munroe '31, beat the world record for the event by three-fifths of a second. Then, as the year ended, Edward H. McGrath '31 was elected baseball captain after a 14-4 victory over Yale, and Malcolm T. Hill '31 was named tennis captain after an undefeated season...
...season rolled on as the football team beat Lehigh, 39 to 0. Hoover won and racoon coats went up to a "preposterous" $600. Then on Friday, Nov. 9, Edward S. Harkness '97 gave three million dollars to the college, which President Lowell said would be used to build two new houses for upperclassmen. The reason--"to develop the unique culture of the individual." The college waited and wondered. The football season was a success as Dave Guarnaccia '29 and French led the Crimson to a 17-0 victory over Yale...
This new trend in Reunion behavior has been developing for some time. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22 spotted it back in the thirties, and commented: "It is no longer necessary to break three hundred glasses and fifteen windowpanes in order to prove that you've been college graduates for six years. Amen! Amen!, sigh the hotel proprietors on the Cape...