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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian students hired their own professors, elected their rectors and reigned supreme on all nonacademic matters. Later, branching out in the arts and sciences, Bologna over the centuries mothered some of Christendom's greatest intellectuals, e.g., Dante, Petrarch, Copernicus, built up what is probably Western Europe's finest library (500,000 volumes) of history and economics...
LYNN, Mass., Feb. 22--The varsity hockey team combined a cautious offense with its finest defensive work this season to score an impressive 5 to 1 victory over Brown tonight at the North Shore Sporting Center...
Harvard is specially suited to offer a General Education course on Latin America. Described in the recent Faculty Report on Behavioral Sciences as "the finest collection of Latin Americana in all of the world's universities," Harvard's resources would lend themselves to the broad historical and cultural approach of a General Education course. The Anthropology Department and Peabody Museum have supported specialized research, and the history Department has even set up a professorship for the region filled by visiting lecturers from Latin American universities during the last two years...
...results of this policy drew praise at the finish of the the intramurals last March, when Joseph Zapustos, Lamar's colleague on the State Boxing Commission and referee of the matches, called them "the finest amateur bouts I've seen in a long while...
...Fayette (who in 1678 wrote the first French novel, La Princesse de Clèves), Madame de Staël, George Sand and a handful of other women did write, and very well, but they were exceptions. The greatest exception of all was Colette (1873-1954), one of the finest of all French stylists, whose women were always too good for men, but not good enough to do without them. In the path cleared by Colette, an army is now marching...