Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cent of the alumni contacted each year, while Dartmouth achieves almost 80 per cent, Princeton 70 per cent, and even Yale receives a far higher percentage of givers than Harvard. Though the Harvard contributions are larger on the average than those of any other college, the relatively low percentage of givers should be a matter of concern for the administration...
Dave Rosenthal won the first varsity event of his career, as he took the Landau-less low hurdles in 24.7 seconds. Hank Abbott continued his steady improvement in the shot put, winning the event with a toss of 47 feet, 3/8 inch, while Art Cahn won the half-mile in a comparatively fast...
...complete reshuffling of its autos. Sales of today's medium-priced models, which are taking the worst sales licking, may shrink further, and some cars may drop out entirely. In their place, bigger, flashier Fords, Chevies and Plymouths may move up to fill the gap between low-priced and high-priced autos. At the bottom will be a new market for utility autos, simply for transportation...
...optimistic was Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard. Gold pointed out that the ring-shaped meteor craters on the moon can be given comparative ages by the way they overlap, and that the walls of the oldest ones are generally low. This means, said Gold, that during the 4 billion years or so of the moon's life, its exposed rock has been slowly turned into dust by bombardment of rays and particles from the sun and space. The dust, kept stirred up by the same agents that formed it, has flowed like a slow liquid into the moon...
...final race, a half-hour later, Landau far outdistanced the pack to win the low hurdles in 23.7 seconds, with Dave Rosenthal third for the varsity...