Word: nassau
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Princeton may become the second Big Three school to institute a program of Advanced Standing. Nassau officials are seriously considering the Harvard program of Advanced Standing, Princeton Dean Jeremiah S. Finch announced yesterday...
Nicos Vernicos, 34, scion of an old Mediterranean shipping family, was named president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic passenger carriers (Italia, Atlantic, Homeric, Roma, Nassau, Homeland). Vernicos was picked and trained for the job by his shrewd bachelor godfather, Eugen Eugenides, who was boss of the line till his death last April. Vernicos was born in Sifnos, Greece, educated at the University of London, worked for Swedish State Railways and S.K.F. before joining the Home Lines...
...Bermuda race; R.J. Schaefer's Edlu I, winner of the 1934 Bermuda; Henry Morgan's Djinn, winner of the Seawanhaka Cup in 1947; Stormy Weather, winner of the ocean race to Norway and the Florida Trophy; R. J. Reynolds' Blitzen, winner of the Miami-Nassau...
Thousands of loyal sons of Nassau and Cambridge treated the Lampoon-written article defaming Princeton as a case of juvenile humor, but not so the Princeton administration, which felt the issue was the culmination of a series of Harvard slurs on its good name. The incident led into a string of articles appearing in national magazines which dragged "dirty football" and Signet rings onto the gridiron for a public airing which did little good, and only intensified already heated feeling on the place of the football giant in undergraduate life...
Princeton University's graduating class of '54, in the annual poll to determine future superlatives, waggishly voted as "least likely to succeed," the school's history-drenched Nassau Hall, gave No. 2 place to Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 21, son of New York's governor...