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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main block to the championship and possibly to an undefeated season will be the excellent Yale varsity. With Sonny Howe holding down the top position, followed by last year's number one man, Charlie Kingsley, the Bulldogs will definitely pose a major threat to Crimson squash hopes...
...information, not for exams. He became absorbed in certain areas of the curriculum, and tended to ignore the rest. As he noted in his autobiography, "I worked drearily at the Gracchi because I had to; my conscientious and much-to-be-pitied professor dragging me through the theme by main strength, with my feet firmly planted in dull and totally idea-proof resistance...
...main studious interests at Harvard lay in the field of natural history. The most conspicuous things in his room were his rifle, his hunting kit, and his trophies of the chase. He always had live turtles and insects in his study, and Mark Sullivan recalls "the excitement caused by a particularly large turtle, sent by a friend from the southern seas, which got out of its box one night and started toward the bathroom in search of water...
...Take me, for example. I wish I had a cross, just one cross, to bear. I was a little boy when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and when it was done and peace declared, I marched down Main Street banging on a pan with a tablespoon. I was taught in tickertape parades...
Brooks cited the increasing demand for men with very broad mathematical training primarily interested in the application of mathematics as a main reason for initiating a new program. "The applied mathematician tends to be a Jack-of-all-trades," he stated...