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...Haverford, Pa., Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's U.N. delegate, threw out the first ball in a cricket match between Haverford College and a British embassy team. Sir Gladwyn also revealed that 1) cricket is not as popular as it once was in England, 2) it is abominated in Ireland and Scotland, and 3) he, himself, dislikes cricket intensely. Score of the game: Embassy 81, Haverford...
...ease the tensions between the U.S. and its allies. Last week, in the wake of the President's congressional crisis, Britain's U.N. Delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb took it upon himself to say a few words on the subject for the edification of the graduating class at Haverford College. Said Jebb: "It is surely not very logical to accept the presence in the U.N. of the Soviet Union, while refusing even to contemplate at any time the presence there ... of the government, which does in fact, whether we like it or not, control the whole mainland of China...
...with a thick thatch of greying hair, Physicist Harnwell, a graduate of Haverford and a Ph.D. from Princeton, arrived at Pennsylvania to find it teaching the same sort of physics it was giving back in the 1890s. Within a few years, Harnwell had revolutionized his department, managed a $2,700,000 physics building. He was awarded the Medal for Merit for his war work in Navy radio and sound research, including sonar...
...Despite a timely warning from President Gilbert F. White, who told them to stay out of trouble or "rot in jail," Haverford students invaded the neighboring Bryn Mawr campus. Failing to tear down decorated poles set up for Bryn Mawr's May Day celebration, the Haverfordmen poured gasoline on the lawn and ignited it to form a pretty, blazing H. After a night of rotting in jail, they were set free. "It was just spring fever," said the tolerant Merion, Pa. justice of the peace...
Charles W. Ufford, Jr., Haverford, Pa.; David Watts, Short Hillis...