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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party's first contact with Nigerian students came when we were shown around the campus of Nigeria's only full-scale university, the University College at Ibadan. UCI was opened in 1948 and has been expanding ever since; present enrollment is about 680 and will eventually rise to 2,000. Affiliated with the University of London, UCI requires its students to satisfy full minimum entrance requirements of the former. Academic standards, in other words, exceed those of most American universities...
...nuclear explosions "north of the Arctic Circle." After the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the tests, Moscow radio said the Russians had been "forced to resume." The U.S. ban-the-bomb groups were strangely silent. Knowing that it takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William R. Frye, "students of Soviet diplomacy are leaning toward the theory that Moscow never wanted...
Final test for Director Cheek came when a black-tie cross section of Virginia's first families turned up at the museum, inspected models of other Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings (Lever House, U.S. Air Force Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found...
...Democrats win both Houses of the Massachusetts legislature this fall, I would fear gerymandering on a large scale," Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, candidate for state Attorney General, told the Law School Republican Club yesterday at a luncheon in Harkness Commons. "If this happens," he said, "you can say good-bye to the Republican Party in Massachusetts...
Although John C. Beck '60 of the Opera Guild said that the scenery is "valuable to all three groups equally," a member of the HDC commented, "They are all designed for large scale opera productions. For us they are more trouble than they are worth...