Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mason Garfield head resident, found the money yesterday and returned it to the four girls form whom it was stolen Wednesday evening. She guessed that the thief had given it back after police entered the case and newspapers publicized...
...Helen Putnam award, carrying a stipend of $2800 a year, is open to women scholars who have obtained their doctorate. Applicants must submit a plan of research with preference given to those whose research is already in progress...
Last week, representatives of 58 national fraternities met in Washington. They worried about incidents which "had given fraternities a bad name" such as Dartmouth's Cirotta Case, Brown's brawls last spring, and Williams' troubles with fraternity drinking. They discussed the perpetual problem of raising money. But most important of all, they talked about bias...
...letter was from the United Negro College Fund, the charity used last year and which supports segregated schools. "We are deeply grateful and extremely proud that the students of Harvard University have given their support to the Fund," the letter began...
...team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to steal a lap on the opposition. He is given two minutes to do this and the number of points he gets depends on how many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members of the other team to keep them from catching...