Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...application is the quality of secondary education in the South. The average level of public schools in the Deep South states such as Georgia and Mississippi is far below the national level. In the urban areas this disparity tends to disappear, but even there instruction is below the national par. Thus the student who may be inclined to go outside his area often finds that he is insufficiently prepared...
Perhaps the best opportunity to place the new Houses on a par with the old is through the choice of staff members. A popular and distinguished master, combined with a high-level tutorial staff would be a great attraction. It may be argued, in fact, that the current popularity of Adams House is due almost entirely to non-physical considerations...
...Unruffled despite being four down in he final round of the U.S. women's amateur golf championship at Indianapolis, Canada's tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 115 lbs.) Marene Stewart, 22, plugged away at her steady, par-nudging game. Ahead, husky JoAnne Gunderson, 17, national junior champion, came all unstrung with tournament jitters. Marlene-onetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholder-passed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian...
Last week that putter cooled off a little early in the final round. Then, as Kocsis faded, Harvie's game got better and better. Coming home on the back nine, he fired sub-par golf, overpowered the weary challenger to win 5 and 4. In the long history of the U.S. Amateur, only six other men have won the title twice in succession. Harvie Ward is the first man to turn the trick since Lawson Little last won in 1935. And since he has no intention of turning pro, he is a prime favorite to win again...
...aliens; many U.S. citizens have gone to schools overseas (mostly in Switzerland and The Netherlands) because they failed to get into U.S. schools or lacked premedical science requirements. Canada's schools are rated on a par with U.S. schools, have similar standards...