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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positions are reversed. The varsity, with its 1-1 League record, still has a shot at the Ivy title, while the Big Green has yet to win. Gundy will severely try the Crimson pass defense, and Crouthamel's running will keep the varsity honest. The 75-year old rivalry stands at 35 wins for Harvard, 24 for Dartmouth, and three ties. It will take the Crimson's best showing of the season to make it 36 today...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harvard-Dartmouth Series | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...General Education Committee has voted to break the ten-year-old rule that every Freshman must take General Education Ahf, and permit students to fulfill the composition requirement by work done in Freshman seminars...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Freshmen May Replace Gen Ed A with Seminars | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

After exploring the reasons for growing "grey areas" and decreasing population in the nation's old cities, the book examines the causes and results of the general factory "flight to the suburbs." The chief result, according to Vernon and Hoover, is the appearance of suburban slums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vernon Conducts New York Study | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

Since that time, the West Coast has spawned the Kingston Trio and other so-called "folk groups," Oberlin College gave birth to a prospering folk song and dance act, and Boston has fallen prey to the indisputable economic lure posed by B.U. and Brandeis folkniks. This week two old troopers, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, initiated the Golden Vanity, an unconventional coffee-house...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Terry, McGee and Lomax | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

...Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded at the memorable Carnegie Hall Christmas concert with Pete Seeger...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Terry, McGee and Lomax | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

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