Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone are seniors Frank Ripley (number one), Bob Inman (four), and Captain Sandy Walker (seven), flock of rising juniors and sophomore but a Dick Appleby will fill...
Junior Dave Benjamin, who has moved up from number two into the top position, will be just as tough there as Ripley, says Barnaby. Benjamin is not a bruising offensive player like Ripley was. Rather, he depends on ground strokes, touch, and speed. He can drive anyone crazy with his varsity shots, and on Harvard's slow, windy courts he's misery to the best of hitters...
...Harvard tutor, a staunch Democrat, likes to call it the "Ripley Society." "I don't know whether to believe them or not," he explains. And why should he? The idea of a group of Harvard men forming the core of a Republican group seems to contradict the very core of the conventional wisdom. And the idea of such a small group receiving national attention (the Cambridge-Boston chapter is only about 80 strong) seems absurd...
...bombed and burned in Mississippi. By year's end the committee had collected $50,000, much of it from within the state. Help came in other ways too. A group of students, mostly from Ohio's Oberlin College, arrived to help rebuild the Antioch Baptist Church near Ripley. Other students from as far away as Pennsylvania and California showed up in other towns to work with local volunteers, both white and Negro. Some local contractors donated materials. By last week, six Negro churches had been completely rebuilt...
Portlist has lost none of the intellectual zest that brought him a magna in history and literature at Harvard in 1954. He wrote his thesis on Henry David Thoreau's part in Brook Farm, the experimental community begun by George Ripley in 1841. Portlist is still an amateur student of Transcendentalism, but it was his interest in politics that moved him to organize the Massachusetts Citizens for the Great Society...