Word: recent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusually excited audience filled Sanders Theatre Friday night to welcome what might be termed the "new" Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra on the occasion of its opening concert this year, and the debut of its conductor, Michael Senturia. It was a triumph all around as the orchestra, after recent years of mixed success, proved itself to be one of Harvard's most important performing groups...
...Overshadowing Ruins. Though Romans have been crying for several years for drastic solutions to the traffic problem, it is only within recent months that the city government has devised an overall "regulatory plan," which is intended to shift much of the city's business-and most of its traffic-away from Rome's historic center to the suburbs. In the meantime, profiteers and speculators have been free to make Rome's outskirts a mixture of slums and squalid forests of ugly, jerry-built apartments...
...Recent seasons have been distinguished by Crimson disasters at the hands of Penn elevens. Last fall, for instance, in a game here, the varsity scored two goals in the first five minutes against the Quakers, only to be handed an eventual 2-2 tie that nearly killed all chances for the Ivy crown...
...recent Armenian Holy Trinity Church decision has not freed the University from compliance with city zoning ordinances, according to an attorney associated with the case...
With Pitt as the guiding hand, the University's admissions program has expanded its scope and thoroughness. For decades, Penn was little more than a state college, drawing a huge proportion of its enrollment from Philadelphia and surrounding areas. In relatively recent time, commuters made up 40 per cent of the undergraduate population. Now they number only 17 per cent of the student body, and the decline is due to more than the construction of new dormitories. The University now draws men from a wider geographical range than ever before, thanks to its expended and still growing Admissions Traveling Program...