Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exceptional students after three years of secondary school. The senior year in school is often un-stimulating, a duplication of work to come later in college. The only argument against these early admissions is the largely unsuccessful experiment the Ford Foundation made at Yale, Columbia, and Chicago. But these "pre-induction" scholarships were given to students sixteen or under, with no more than two years of high school. Those coming to Harvard under the new plan would be a year older and should be carefully screened to prove their emotional maturity...
Died. Walter Conrad Arensberg, 75, one of the world's leading art collectors, who in 1950 presented his 1,000-piece, $2,000,000 collection of 20th century and pre-Columbian art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A firm believer that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, Arensberg wrote numerous books on the subject, founded the Francis Bacon Foundation to carry on research...
...previous six matches, the squash team rolled over Navy. M.I.T., McGill, Dartmouth, trinity, and Westleyan. None of these contests was even close. Navy, which was a pre-season choice to give the Crimson trouble, lost, 6-3. If the varsity gets by Army today, it might close its regular season without a defeat...
...pre-season prognostications, Coach Barnaby had rated Army, Navy, and Princeton as the chief obstacles in the path of the Crimson's bid for a second straight national title. The Crimson already owns a victory over the Midshipmen in its season's opener, thus dispelling the Navy threat...
...both Army and Princeton have fully justified Barnaby's pre-season fears and both teams are pointing for the Crimson. On the basis of matches thus far, there seems little to choose between them. Army scraped out a 5 to 4 win over the Tigers in a recent meeting but it took a last-ditch, five-game victory by the Cadet's number five man to clinch the match...