Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Normally the twenty-fifth reunion class' gift includes all money contributed up to the time of commencement. It was reported, however, that the Class of 1933 hopes to reach the half-million mark and that the dealine for all contributions has been extended until December...
More than half of the senior class, 112 of the 216, will graduate with honors. Four will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. They are Anga Boass of Sherborn, Biology; Mrs. Dorothy Milman Merman of Great Neck, N.Y., English; Julia Otis of Takoma Park, Md., History and Literature; and Mrs. Gabriella Pintus Schlesinger of Boston, English...
...schools which had applicants for the 270 places in the Class of 1962, she said, were offering their top girl. About half also strongly recommended a "brilliant eccentric" and/or a "fine human being." She wistfully complained that the committee disliked becoming a "committee on rejections...
...four and one-half year athletic separation between Harvard and Princeton was terminated in February. Relations between Harvard and Princeton had been severed in 1926, following the Harvard-Princeton football game in Cambridge, which the Tigers won. Charges of dirty playing, a particularly violent issue of the Lampoon, the announcement that Harvard was planning to adopt a rotating schedule policy, and a growing feeling of hatred had brought about this break. The 1931 "accord" signalled the resumption of all contests but football...
...Will. As his tortures grew more fierce, his courage and will to stay silent grew fiercer still. He was helped by the growing numbness to pain of a body already half dead. Eventually, the torturers flagged, and Alleg knew that he was winning: "I suddenly felt proud and happy not to have given way. I was convinced that I could still hold out . . . that I would not help them in their job of killing...