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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's oldest universities: the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, first U.S. graduate school to be established on the Continent.* Said Ambassador Luce: "America is not here to add something to Bologna's centuries-old tradition . . . but to gain strength from it in a specialized field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experiment in Bologna | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...earned $1,658,066, v. a loss of $2,056,351 for the same month of 1954. The New Haven Railroad showed profits of about $1,000,000 for January, v. last year's $283,000 loss; Union Pacific reported a net of $5,124,261, an 18% gain over 1954, and Bob Young's New York Central reported a net profit of $3,082,934, v. a loss of $2,762,696 in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings Show the Way | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...scientists speak their convictions, so must educators, doctors, lawyers, and judges divorce their political views from their responsibilities, voicing them without restraint. When Americans hear their educated specialists as citizens, not experts, then politics will gain a new perspective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room for Argument | 3/5/1955 | See Source »

David Maxwell, a law student and exvarsity squash player at Yale, became the first man to gain the semi-finals yesterday in the University squash Tournament at Hemenway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maxwell Advances to Semifinals in Squash | 3/3/1955 | See Source »

...Dunster quintet took a lead in the first minute of the game which it maintained for over ten minutes. The Deacons then built up their score to gain a slight and temporary edge over their opponents, but the two teams were tied at the half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Five Wins Title, Defeating Funsters, 46-43 | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

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