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Harvard, Yale and Princeton all use this ranking system, and other colleges are, in effect, doing the same thing, although not necessarily on an A-B-C basis. In general, according to G. Grenville Benedict '23, dean of students at Phillips Academy, the Big Three colleges agree on the letter rank of an applicant in about 90 percent of the cases...
...retired Senator Walter George). So are such northerners as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Illinois' Paul Douglas. If he can persuade the dissident Democrats to work together, onetime Private First Class Mansfield may become a Senate commander of the highest rank...
...been shot by a Soviet tank as he was coming away from a bread shop. I argued that there was no 'White terror' in Hungary. The rising against the Communist government of Hungary was supported by 99% of the people, including a great number of ordinary honest rank-and-file members of the Communist Party...
STEEL UNION REVOLT threatens United Steelworkers President David McDonald (TIME, July 9). Steelworkers have nominated rank-and-file slate to oppose top officers in union election in February. Rebels oppose monthly dues hike from $3 to $5 to fatten union's strike war chest (now at $21 million) and pay boosts to McDonald (from $40,000 to $50,000) and other staffers...
This was the best Yale team of the decade, and in all around strength, one that should certainly rank with the best Yale teams of the past. The Blue also dispelled the idea that it was not a November team, for it finished the month by defeating Penn, Princeton, and Harvard with 40, 42, and 42 points respectively...