Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in 1663, was cramped into narrow, grey stone buildings in Quebec City's huddled Quartier Latin. Its curriculum concentrated on theology, law and medicine. For diversion, students were expected to turn to religious reading or take meditative walks in the walled courtyard of the university...
...Laval University made plans for a big change. A rally in Quebec's Coliseum launched a $10 million public subscription campaign to bring Laval up-to-date. The university would spread over an area of one square mile in the spacious St. Foye district. There would be white stone buildings, a swimming pool and broad reaches of campus. It would cost $100 million and the whole job would take 50 years. Premier Maurice Duplessis made the first move: a check for $2,000,000 from the province of Quebec...
...Graaff generator; a second contestant was given a Geiger counter, asked to search the audience for a radioactive $100 bill; a third, trying to choose between two star sapphires-a natural stone ($5,000) and one made by scientists ($250)-picked the cheaper stone...
...transfer from Notre Dame who has been ordered to take it easy until fully recovered from oil burns he suffered during the summer; Duke Sedgwick, whose father and grandfather both played football for the Crimson; Bill Rosenau, a member of last year's Freshman team; and Gordon Stensrud, Rocky Stone, Dick Guidera, Skip Garvey, Pete Coyne, and Henry Dunker...
...present, the injured list is encouragingly small, with little chance of its increasing during the next two days of light practice. End Jerry Bahn and tackle Rocky Stone will definitely be in the spectator category, and Wally Coulson is still very doubtful as a participant. In the event that Coulson is also restricted to the heavy looking-on, his fellow end, Bob DiBlasio, will drop back to handle the punting...