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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rank, 103 full professors indicated preference for Stevenson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Picks Adlai in Poll By 2-1 Margin | 11/3/1956 | See Source »

...Bullpups rank as solid favorites on their season record. They have lost only to a powerful Fordham squad, while defeating the Dartmouth freshmen, 23 to 32. The Yardlings beat the same team 25 to 33, last Friday...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Runners to Face Yale, Princeton | 11/2/1956 | See Source »

...curriculum, however, President Quincy's influence was not good. The recitation system, which had gradually broken down, was hardened by the adoption of a horrible "Scale of Merit." Quincy required a daily mark on recitations for his rank list, thus reducing the faculty from a teaching body to one which merely saw that the boys got their lessons...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Growth and Development of a University | 10/31/1956 | See Source »

Britain's First Sea Lord and chief of its naval staff, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten, 56, was upped to Admiral of the Fleet, top rank in Her Majesty's Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...weeks as Washington's aide-de-camp). Then, disappointed that the commission making him a full colonel at the age of 20 was postdated by three months, he resigned. "A soldier's honor," Trumbull haughtily informed Congress, "forbids the idea of giving up the least pretension of rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gentleman John Trumbull | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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