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...hundredth anniversary of the Harvard-Yale game, the biggest problem is space-our main objective is to provide space where Harvard people can say. "This is our ground," said committee member John G. McCellister...
...more than a century and a half later, we have well-nigh forgotten the untold thousands slaughtered in the course of Napoleon's mad struggle for power, while the echo of the shots fired beside the Wannsee still rings in our ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist's death, on November 21, 1911, that the family overcame its sense of shame over this 'useless member of society, unworthy of any sympathy.' On that occasion they laid a wreath on his grave. The inscription on the ribbon read: 'To the best...
Middle destance specialist Brad Bunney almost notched another Crimson second place but was awarded third-place in 800 when the judges ruled that he finished one-hundredth of a second behind Yale's Joe Secley The race started out at an incredibly fast pace with the runners finishing the quarter mile in a 51.2 clip. After such a quick start, the rest of the race was a matter of who could hold...
...policy of accommodation toward the Soviet Union has been shredded by events." Searching, as he does with all subjects, for the historical coincidence to add meaning, he notes wryly that "Solzhenitsyn finished writing The Gulag Archipelago in 1967, the fiftieth anniversary of the Communist Revolution and the one hundredth anniversary of the invention of barbed wire...
...years ago," Father Robert F. Drinan, the ADA's president, declared in the convention's opening speech. Sol C. Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, labeled the convention a symbolic renaissance and called for "a new prophet...to restate and renew the faith" on the one hundredth anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. And other speakers--including Parliament member Shirley Williams--joined their voices to his in calling for a reemergence of the Roosevelt coalition of labor, liberals and minorities. Last came a note of outright optimism from Leon Shull, national director of the ADA: "The liberals have...