Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foster and captain Joe Noble were the mainstays of the squad and both will graduate in June, leaving huge gaps to fill for next season. Among the other regulars or semi-regulars, Dave Skeels, King Holmes and Rick Sullivan are also seniors, leaving Carl Kludt (130), John Watkins (137), Nick Estabrook (147) and heavy-weights Ted Robbins and Bob wirke as the experienced nucleus of next year's squad...
...necessarily for an undergraduate body. The four undergraduate years are supposed to provide a "liberal education," not a mere preview of professional, graduate scholasticism, and the notion of diversity lies at the basis of this goal of liberal education. With the press of applicants constantly growing, Harvard could easily fill its classes in a few years from the members of any relatively homogeneous group, whether such a group consist of those who come from New England, or can pay the complete costs of their education, or can make Groups I, II, or III. But the elimination of varied backgrounds--considered...
Masters must fill a variety of quotas to insure "a distribution of excellence." Applicants are divided according to rank lists, types of schools attended, geographical distribution, fields of concentration, and athletic or other activities...
...prospect for next year, however, is considerably brighter. Wilson believes that the outcome will hinge on the play of this year's freshmen, and on finding a replacement for Harrington to join Donohue in the backcourt. Either Bowditch, Grayer, or Bill Richling will probably fill this important position...
...scramble has come a golden chance for British newswomen to feather their nests as never before. Old hands for new jobs: chic, leggy (5 ft. 111n., 130 Ibs.) Anne Scott-James, 44, who left the Sunday Dispatch fortnight ago to fill the specially created post of adviser to the Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial...