Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Austin B. Mason prizes were granted to Robert H. Stewart 3G and Paul G.M.J. Van Ael 1G for outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics. Michael D. West '59 received the Lewis Curtis Prize for excellence in Latin...
...committed men," who, like Demos, do believe, often see the critical examination of ideas as the best method for arriving at truth. Reverend George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the the University, sees truth arising "from the friction of friendly minds." Thus the University becomes almost a playing field where issues of possibly eternal salvation and damnation are gentlemanly tossed around by polite opponents. The danger with this method, however, is clear. If University discussion takes on the atmosphere of a sporting match, too often momentous ideas can become mere playthings...
Harvard came out way ahead in every department of the game--batting, pitching, fielding, and what have you. The Crimson superiority was so marked indeed, that many of the alumni found it quite feasible to devote their attention to other things beside the activity on the playing-field...
...varsity baseball team will tackle Yale at Soldiers Field this afternoon, amid all the pomp and circumstance that traditionally surrounds this alumnidominated affair. Game time is 3:15, but a variety of parades and other preliminary festivities will begin more than an hour beforehand...
While the Class of '34 lived around the Square, the Old Order's crisis deepened, and Roosevelt's New Deal burst dramatically into almost everyone's life. Politically and economically, it was an exciting era--but in Cambridge, undergraduate attention seemed to focus more on the football field than on the stock market...