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...However, ripples are also being felt at institutions that, while selective, can ill afford to bid more for top students. Pennsylvania's Dickinson College has an endowment less than one-fiftieth the size of Princeton's and must carefully husband aid. "Princeton," says Dickinson vice president for enrollment and student life Robert Massa, "has reduced the maneuverability of making a financial-aid package competitive...
...election that drew about a quarter of the student body to the polls, Cabot's seven-vote turnout represents less than one-fiftieth of the House's overall population...
Abram J. Chayes '43, Frankfurter professor of law emeritus, was awarded the Harvard Law School Association (HLSA) award Saturday, during a colloquium on international law held in honor of his fiftieth law school reunion...
...represent as great an advance over earlier computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal computer in 1983, although it contained only one-fiftieth of the memory and operated at one-thirtieth the speed of my present model...
...also said that An Evening With Champions is one of the biggest fund raisers each year for the Jimmy Fund, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year...