Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirkland men write for the Advocate or the Lampoon, or own club ties. But a large number of its 357 members are active in WHRB, the Crimson Key, The Crimson, the Yearbook, the Harvard Dramatic Club, and the Band. Kirkland had two representatives on Phi Beta Kappa's Senior Sixteen list, and two second-place winners in the Boylston Oratory competition...
With a squad whose tallest man was six feet four, the Yardlings defeated all sixteen of its opponents to become the first undefeated freshman basketball team in the College's athletic history...
HANOVER, N.H., March 5--All varsity players entered reached the round of sixteen today in the Intercollegiate Squash Championships here...
...school. The senior year in school is often un-stimulating, a duplication of work to come later in college. The only argument against these early admissions is the largely unsuccessful experiment the Ford Foundation made at Yale, Columbia, and Chicago. But these "pre-induction" scholarships were given to students sixteen or under, with no more than two years of high school. Those coming to Harvard under the new plan would be a year older and should be carefully screened to prove their emotional maturity...
Interim Note. In Anchorage, Alaska, the Times carried this classified ad: "YOUNG MAN . . . sober at present . . . not proud, will even take the janitor's job. Sixteen years schooling, same room, same class, married the teacher...