Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have directed." It contains a liberal sprinkling of sex, a rooftop chase, a little violence, good guys, bad guys, suave continental types, a dash of philosophy and more than the usual sprinkling of psychological insights: in short, it's just the kind of movie a Harvard freshman--or senior, or graduate student--might have directed...
...Senior author Theodore Caplow is a sociologist at the University of Minnesoto, while Reece J. McGee is from the University of Texas. Their book is an analysis of employment policy in major American universities. Their "data" consists of interviews with the department chairman and another colleague of every professor who voluntarily or involuntarily vacated a chair in any one of nine large universities between July 1954 and July 1956. Their conclusion is that universities seek employees who will enhance their national prestige, which means employees whose publications will receive national attention...
Henry Krumb, a Brooklyn boy who studied at Columbia University's School of Mines, ran short of money in his senior year, 1898. If the school had not paid his tuition with a $200 scholarship, Krumb wrote later, "I would not have been a mining engineer." As things turned out, Columbia had good reason to congratulate itself on its openhandedness. Henry Krumb grew rich as an internationally famed mining consultant, and in particular as an authority on low-grade copper ore. He sought to repay his debt in many ways, served as a trustee from 1941-47, and gave...
Died. Daniel Alden Reed, 83, Old Guard Republican Congressman from upstate New York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas...
...session, which will take place from June 29 to Aug. 7, will offer courses for credit in the senior high section, with a non-credit program for younger students...