Word: pitt
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Charles Hall, a strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 210 lbs.) farm boy from Murrysville, Pa., graduated from high school at 18, third in his class, president of the student council, a two-letterman in basketball. He entered the University of Pittsburgh in 1959, when Pitt inaugurated its year-round trimester calendar. Last week, five years after Hall left high school, Pitt Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield draped the academic robes of a Ph.D. in mathematics around his husky young shoulders...
...only two are required to remain in good standing) but also piled on a few extra credits. As a result, he got his B.S. in 2⅓ academic years. "Those four days of rest between sessions really perked me up," said Hall, who was perky enough to marry a Pitt nursing student and become the father...
Certainly some Ivy wrestlers do meet each other in the Easterns but they also meet Pitt, Lehigh and Penn State wrestlers and either win, or gain from the experience. I would decry the day that the Ivy teams more contracted their "club in the corner" merely because the competition in the outside world was tough...
Last year, for instance, the best Harvard wrestling team in a decade traveled to the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament to face the monster powers--Lehigh, Pitt, Penn State, Syracuse, Army, and Navy--and won just three matches in the entire tournament. And two of these three were against other Ivy Schools...
...Room Warren. It was King George II who gave No. 10 to England, specifically to the Treasury. Since Prime Ministers are also First Lords of the Treasury, they have had their way-and their woes-with the building for 229 years. Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates. But seven P.M.s refused to live in No. 10's cramped quarters; between 1847 and 1877, it was completely untenanted, and then Disraeli moved in only because his gout made the trip to his office...