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...number of men applied for admission to Yale College. In Princeton, the Committee on Admissions found its selection task "the most difficult in history" and lead to turn down 700 whom it judged to be "fully qualified." Meanwhile in Hanover, officials at Dartmouth completed the processing of a total splash of 3,500 applicants for but 650 places in the class...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet and Bayley F. Mason, S | Title: Intense Ivy Rivalry for 'Elite' of Applicants Puts Harvard Eyes on Nation-Wide Promotion | 6/9/1951 | See Source »

...haven't made much of a splash in the world of women," Dean Toepfer remarked. The number of applications is exactly the same as it was last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only 20 Female Applications Come in for '51 Law School | 5/5/1951 | See Source »

Cambridge rowed almost perfectly. Its blade work was extraordinarily clean, raising hardly was splash, and never during the mile an three-quarter course was it seriously threatened...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Cambridge Shell Beats Crimson; B.U. Takes 3rd Over M.I.T. | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...shenanigans of the power-hungry Perons bode ill for the whole world. Curtailment of common liberties in Argentina is like the proverbial rock tossed into the millpond. First a great splash, then the seemingly never-ending ripples which go on & on, just as the evil created by Peron will go on & on and find its mark in the gullibility of "follow-the-leader" people all over the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...With a splash of full-page newspaper ads, two Boston dairies started the first big sales of a new product that many dairymen think may revolutionize the dairy industry. The new product: concentrated milk, a heavy, creamy-looking milk with two-thirds of the fluid taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: Concentrated Milk | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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