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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears that Harvard, too, or perhaps especially, has succumbed to a distinctly American ideology; for University officials now promise us bigger and better Dean's Lists along with our bigger and better Houses, facilities, scholarships, and tuitions. We are assured that the percentage of students on the Dean's List is increasing rapidly and steadily, and that we may look forward to a time in the very near future when at least half the class appears on this distinctive roster...
Radcliffe Freshmen achieved a higher percentage of students with Dean's List standing at midyears than any other Freshman Class in the College's history, Ruth K. Davenport, Registrar of Radcliffe College, announced yesterday. Forty-eight per cent of the Class of '62 have standing of Group Three or better...
...Miss Daveport said the Administration would like to think of this year's rise as "part of an upward trend." Since final grades are usually higher than midyear ones, she predicted that as much as 60 per cent of the 'Cliffe freshmen might make Dean's List by the end of the year...
...times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list...
...their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...