Word: numbers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Right-hander Ed Wadsworth, who has made himself the Crimson's number one hurler this spring, will pitch against the Blue tomorrow. Wadsworth has apparently conquered the wildness that plagued him last season, and has a strong twohit shutout of Princeton to his credit...
...That is why the number of farm economies is declining," adds Arthur Thompson. "During the past year alone 1,800,000 farmers left the land...
...Program for Harvard College, a conception of the Corporation, the Administration, and a limited number of the Alumni, is the most obvious of these commitments. It provides $15 million for three new houses and another million for an improved and enlarged commuter center. Master Leighton talks of raising the percentage of commuters in the student body, and Seymour Harris discusses eliminating small classes in order to pack more students into existing facilities...
There are countless arguments both for and against expansion: that Harvard has an obligation to educate as many people as possible; that it should try instead to give the best possible education to a limited number; that a large group can be taught more economically than a small one; that the present organization of the College would break down if it were enlarged substantially. Similarly, nobody is quite sure how much expansion of labs, classrooms, and libraries should accompany the building of whatever new Houses and dorms may be constructed...
...moment, a collector who has chosen recently and enigmatically to become anonymous, has presented Fogg with the loan of several Cezannes, including one of the late Mont Saint-Victoires. Coincidentally, the museum is host to a number of later French canvasses featuring Picasso, also anonymously offered. The resultant exhibition, then, is a fortuitous affair and a particularly happy one. It makes for many good paintings and a few tangential observations...