Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complicating fact may assuage the fears of militant feminists. Relatively few girls major in the Natural Sciences, which award the highest number of summa degrees. Since most areas in this field do require General Examinations, or thesis preparation, and since Honors are usually calculated on the basis of grades in which the 'Cliffies hold the edge, the lack of the girls' overall superiority may be due the small number in Natural Sciences...
...other hand, Harvard's admissions record is not a subject for shame. The largest number of secondary school applicants on record applied to Harvard last Fall; over 60 per cent were rejected. And the students admitted are by no means scholastic slouches. On Scholastic Aptitude Tests, members of the class of '56 scored from 474 to 674; for the class of '62, scores ranged from...
Back from a successful Florida trip with a new spirit of "togetherness," the varsity track squad has the potential and the depth to make its followers forget about the dismal winter season just ended. The team returned from the South with a surprisingly large number of new-found assets and its smallest injury list since last December...
After McCurdy had practically given up on him as a hurdler, Tom Blodgett, already the team's best pole vaulter, demonstrated enough improvement in speed and endurance to re-establish himself as number two man behind Joel Landau. Wink Pescosolido and Pat Liles developed rapidly as low hurdlers, and distance runner Willy Thompson showed signs of life after a discouraging indoor season...
...would be hard to deny that Youth Festivals have served, and probably will continue to serve, as Communist front organizations. The official American reaction has been that participation should therefore be avoided and that, when possible, participators should be penalized. This year a number of international student groups have refused to participate--as have Austrian student organizations--and the American government may well be in good company...