Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statesmen, politicians, and poets seldom lead their commencement processions. Most Harvard prize winners grow up to be professors, many of them professors at Harvard. John H. Finley, Jr. '25 won $250 for a Bowdoin essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded...
...building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.-deep ditch, a highway for the exclusive use of Red patrols, and a sanitary strip some 500 yds. wide sprinkled with police watchtowers. Where buildings and trees now stand, pink hollyhocks will grow-not so much to beautify the austere scene as to provide the Communist sharpshooters with a clear line of fire...
...chairman of IBM World Trade Corp. and youneer brother of IBM Chief Thomas J. Wat son Jr., gave voice to that belief and made a suggestion for reform. What is needed, Watson told the Detroit Economic Club, is "a system that will give the free world elbow room to grow, without these unending balance-of-payments crises that alternately hound us and Europe." He asked: "Why not create a new kind of currency backed not only by gold but also by the assets of American business abroad...
...soon as we enable all of our citizens to perform skills needed in our mechanized economy, unemployment will shrink and the national intellect will grow. "Machines provide jobs for men if there are men capable of filling them." The great theme of the next few decades, and of The New Improved American, is education. The route to Paradise passes through the schools...
College officials last week assured the outside world that they were "concerned" about the drug situation in Harvard Square. You could sense it. They really were concerned--concerned that the minor furor over drugs would grow and become the 1965 version of last year's Sex "Scandal...