Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the third in a series of attacks in the college vicinity this year, and the second within a week. Last Wednesday a man tried to accost a Radcliffe senior in the Cambridge Common while she was was returning to her dormitory, and on November 30 a Leverett House tutor was assaulted by four youths as he was walking back to his House along Plympton Street...
...Soviet education as alarmingly successful as their artificial moons make it appear? In a carefully documented new book, Soviet Education for Science and Technology (Technology Press of M.I.T. and John Wiley & Sons; $8.50), Russian-born Engineer Alexander Korol, who left Russia in 1920 and is now a senior researcher at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, answers no. While paying just tribute to the Russian system's virtues, Korol also presents a picture of its defects, culled from official papers and statistics, stories in the Soviet press, the observations of foreign travelers and students, and statements...
...first meet of the season for the varsity, coach Bob Pickett moved all his men up a weight classification, rather than force them to shed poundage this early in the season. Tom Myers and Dave Skeels produced the big points for the varsity, each registering five. Myers, a senior normally in the 115-pound class, non-existent in college wrestling, scored his five points on a default, when Dartmouth was unable to put an entrant on the mat in the 123-pound class...
Therefore, he will have Tom Myers, normally a 115 pound man, at 123. Although the senior has been a member of the squad for three years, and Pickett regards him highly, there has been no weight class...
...best known story of F.D.R.'s "democracy" in college concerns his supposed reform of the class elections in his senior year. For years the class day officers had been drawn from the select clubs, which were better organized for political maneuvering than the mass of the student body. A year or two earlier changes in the election procedure had been proposed, and F.D.R. continued, rather than originated, the campaign. "There is a higher duty than to vote for one's personal friends," he admonished his classmates, "and that is to secure for the whole class leaders who really deserve...