Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became the fourth sport within three years to gain major sport status. Wrestling was raised to a major sport in 1956, and tennis and squash were elevated last fall. Noting that this indicates a consistent trend, Junta stated that Yale has raised nearly every sport to the major sport level. Harvard promotes the sports only as they become deserving, he said. Junta predicted that "Sooner or later almost every sport will become a major sport...
Leland noted that membership in the National Student Association was a "good idea," especially for its activities on the international level. He criticized the Council's lack of interest in the organization, and stated that since the Council already belongs to the NSA for the coming year, it should make as much use as possible of the activities of the Association...
...probably easier to select the brilliant scientist on an undergraduate level than it is to choose the highly talented historian. Certainly no department should award summas on a quota basis. On the other hand, the criteria should be harmonized so that the qualified student, regardless of field of concentration, has a fair chance to be graduated summa cum laude...
...project arose from three high-level discussions held last year under the auspices of the cathedral and attended by such laymen as White House Economist Gabriel Hauge, Journalists Walter Lippmann and James Reston, Industrialist Paul Hoffman, and such clergymen as Washington's Episcopalian Bishop Angus Dun and Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Behind closed doors, they discussed Christian responsibility in economics, international affairs and nuclear energy. Out of their meetings grew the idea that Protestantism should set up a permanent organization in the capital. Selected to head the new project was the Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer...
...million structure to house all its offices and indoor stages. (For outdoor shooting, Fox has a 2,300-acre ranch, 25 miles away in the Malibu district.) Fox will continue to let Universal Consolidated Oil Co., which is pumping crude from underground stations that cannot be seen at street level, and which has paid more than $500,000 in royalties to Fox since the lot's first deep well was brought in late in 1955, drill...