Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunburned Harry C. Melges Jr., 29, a boatbuilder from Lake Geneva, Wis., won none of the eight races in the 20½-ft. Corinthian class sloops, but finished no worse than fourth in six to edge Warner Willcox of New Rochelle, N.Y., 45½-45¼, take the eighth Mallory Cup, symbol of the North American sailing championship. Said Sailor Melges: "I played it straight. No gambling. No chances...
...past, the academic side of freshman year has proved challenging to many students but impersonal and boring to as many others. To the one eighth of the class of '63 who will participate in one or two of the new freshman seminars, the academic experience involved could prove one of their most fruitful at Harvard...
...centralized or how autonomous the program should be, how specialized or how general the individual workshops. Experiment is a necessity in this sort of venture. What has been established so far is a healthy beginning and should be continued and expanded, so that more than a privileged one eighth of a class will benefit...
Much less successful at Harvard are Newsweek (a sixth read it), David Lawrence's conservative U.S. News and World Report (an eighth), Max Ascoli's Reporter (a tenth). Only a twentieth read either the liberal Nation or New Republic, and a mere handful look at Bill Buckley's infant National Review...
Quincy House, nearly ready, but not quite, opened its doors to its first residents Friday morning. The first group among the 260 upperclassmen who will live in the eighth House, had to pick their way amid wooden planks, unfilled trenches and other signs of continuing construction, but found their living quarters entirely finished...