Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of May the leading scholars of the class were Adams Blondis, Gierasch, Loud Marfield, Norris, Rittenband, Sardomire, and Seidel, all of whom placed in Group I for mid-year grades. And the captains for spring sports were O'Connell of track, Cole of 150 pound crew, Shapiro of lacrosse, and Prior of an eminently successful baseball team...
Despite the football fracas, the College was not always the focus of attention. For Dean Pound of the Law School announced that $1,250,000 was being put into enlarging Langdell Hall and that the School was engaged in a campaign for $5 million. Construction on two medical buildings was under way, a new chemical laboratory was going up, a baseball cage was being built, and Fogg Museum was nearly ready for occupancy, all this in addition to talk about a new indoor athletic building. Indeed, the year saw Harvard booming with American, and were it not for financial limitations...
...first president ran the University on an annual budget of 175 pounds, 55 of which were Dunster's own salary. Tuition then was about a pound and a third per year, but the student had to pay and additional three pounds when he received his degree. Whatever capital was available in those days could be let out at eight percent...
There followed a third group of still more serious offenses, and if the treasurer and logic had had their way, the fine for these acts might have been one pound. The Laws of 1734, however, decreed expulsion for such offenders...
Your May 17 cover article on Ray Jenkins, one of our favorite East Tennesseans, was highly appreciated in this section . . . You referred to him as the "Terror of Tellico Plains," which reminded me of another Tellico terror: the wild boar of that section, which, pound for pound, is the fiercest fighter of the mountains. Both terrors are scrappers, and with no disrespect to Ray, believe you will note a remarkable likeness in the jut of their jaws [see cuts...