Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scholarship Committee) handbook (for alumni) also implies the now generally accepted axiom that the so called "all around boy" is what Harvard wants most. But a graduate should be sure to make no promises to a boy who hasn't the minimum amount of intelligence to do the work required at Harvard. A reasonably accurate formula has been worked out to determine this level of intelligence...
...declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...
These fads may extend to an item of dress or a haircomb, but they usually are limited to an action or a turn of speech. To facilitate the use of a community slang, the Student Handbook this year printed three pages of slang expressions covering more general campus needs...
...Margaret Fitzgerald '52; Orientation, Phebo Crampton '52; Publicity, Elizabeth Fleischner '54 and Ruth Jacobson '52; Community Service, Mary Jane Wade '52 and Phyllis Watt '54; Health Center, Ellin Louria '52; Social, Rachel Mellinger '52; Student Employment, Pamela Huntsman-Trout '52. The new editor of the Red Book, the student handbook, is Gloria Wagstaff...
Died. Porter Sargent, 78, Boston's Brooklyn-born, pleasantly eccentric critic of education, who poked at educators' weak spots in his annual Handbook of Private Schools; after an operation; in Boston. In his hit-or-miss way, he denounced snobbery, prudishness, convention, academism, alumni influence, regimentation, kept his scholastic audience-"scared prostitutes, pimps and panderers" -always amused, often edified. He thought Alma Mater in general was a "flatulent old bawd," said of his own in particular: "Harvard practically ruined...