Word: ruggedness
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Such rugged academic programs attract crack high-school graduates to all six schools. "We discourage any student who just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best...
Harvard's actors are now due for official acceptance, after several years of successful work. The rugged individualists who built up local theatre will soon get together in a solid and stolid building where they can continue that odd mixture of escapism and exhibitionism.
"Alexander dropped dead at 26,"*suggested a learned visitor who had been wondering out loud whether the champ's aging (37) legs and slowing fists were equal to 15 rugged rounds. But Ray professed not to hear. "We know what Basilio's been doin'," said Sugar'...
Smith's rugged iron works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel...
At the Backdoor. Richard King became a boatman by chance: he made his exit from New York by stowing away on a Gulf-bound sailing ship, and the captain taught the youngster his trade. During the rugged days on the Southwest border, after Old Fuss-and-Feathers Scott and Old...