Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive for having the railroad, provides sufficient opposition...
...reason for the drop from '51 to '52 was the lighter football schedule, which saw Army and Holy Cross, both local crowd drawers, replaced on the schedule by Washington University of St. Louis and Davidson...
Admissions decisions are made by a committee composed of both Redcliffe officials and outsiders, who are brought in to insure that the local administrators do not cater to any subconscious prejudices. Rejections are especial difficult, for the committee realizes that in most cases they are eliminating choices that could possibly be as valuable for the college as the girls who are accepted. Most applicants these days can meet the academic requirements...
...last ten years Radcliffe has grown from a small local college into a national institution. But although the Georgian brick buildings and the knee-socked girls are now completely integrated into the bustling Harvard community, many vestiges and problems of the small college remain...
...American teams have always been suspected as something determined between local football writers, with the most voluble of those men producing the most all-star players...