Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language requirement has been eliminated in the conviction that students who take a language on compulsion and without aptitude gain too little from the experience to justify what it costs them and the college...
...process may be viewed with some alarm, but the spirit of the age seems to dictate that Radcliffe gain "equal rights" with Harvard. Merged activities, proposed tutorial changes, women on the CRIMSON Editorial Board, all hint at the new regime, and more should follow. Among the most valuable experiments arising from this trend toward the triumph of the 'Cliffe is the system instituted recently at Comstock Hall. A "graduate school couple" was installed as head residents instead of the venerable "house mother...
...records. With this triumph, the Crimson virtually clinched first-year possession of the Arvanites Sabre Trophy, a new award to be given annually to the best Boston area sabre team. The trophy will be offered for five years, and the team winning it three of those years will gain permanent ownership...
...freshman basketball team outplayed Andover from the opening jump to gain a 73 to 50 triumph yesterday afternoon at the I.A.B...
...judge the constantly changing, increasingly complex U.S. economy solely by G.N.P. is also a risky business. Much of the slowdown in the rate of gain between 1952 and 1958 can be attributed to slowing in industrial production of hard goods. But consumers bought so many other things that the volume of consumer buying kept growing an average 3.5% annually, well above the 3% "norm." The continuing consumer demand means that production-and thus G.N.P.-must take another jump...