Word: marked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Particularly encouraging to Clifton is the high participation rate in this year's drive--the highest since 1967-68. To date, more than 16,000 people have contributed to the drive and Clifton said he hopes to hit the 40-per-cent mark. In contrast, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton, which usually boast greater participation rates than Harvard, suffered a decline this year, according to data Clifton received a few months...
...biggest change in New England boarding schools is, in a word, girls. Since 1970 Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton. Hotchkiss, Middlesex and St. Mark's have all gone coed. With the girls came the easing of once strict daily regimens. Traditionally, schools such as Groton and St. Paul's tried to imbue their boys with a "muscular Christianity" through spartan rigor in almost monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going...
...thousand years. But ominous signs of instability have been reported by a U.S. Geological Survey team. Upstream from its face, the glacier has thinned by more than 30 ft. in one year, and since 1974, there have been periods of accelerated calving every summer. Says U.S.G.S. Glaciology Project Chief Mark Meier: "This suggests that there is not enough ice coming forward to keep up with the iceberg calving...
Three underclassmen will be named to the All-American squad, also, sources on the lacrosse team said last week. Mike Faught, who tied the single-season scoring mark of 58 points this spring, junior goalie Ken First, and sophomore midfielder Peter Predun will be named when the NCAA announces its list June 9. It is not known whether they will be tabbed as members of one of the first three teams or in the honorary mention category...
...investment rush has been building for years, and now it is gaining momentum. One factor is the dollar's slump, which has enabled holders of West Germany's mark, Switzerland's franc, Japan's yen and other strong currencies to buy a piece of the U.S. at bargain prices. More important, in the new economic climate of high-energy prices, sluggish international growth and protectionist trade sentiments, the U.S. appears to be the country best suited to ride out the tempest. It also seems the nation least vulnerable to the terrorism that is ravaging Italy...