Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the use of the post-war admission tactics of weighing serious interest, secondary-school achievement, and war-time experience for veterans' entrance, there are some Radcliffe girls who had no college training before coming to Cambridge. Millicent Rose Tag-von Stein, Radcliffe '50, was working in a Los Angeles bank before the war, trying to save enough money for a college education. The twenty-three year old ex-Corporal had patiently snapped greenbacks, balanced ledgers, and rolled up coins, waiting for the time she could give up a cozy cage for an overheated classroom...
Unless the S.B. tag is considered of particular usefulness to any considerable proportion of men, it ought to be dropped in favor of the single degree, indicating merely "a college graduate." Especially in such an integrated and comprehensive curriculum as is projected under the General Education plan, all melds have mixed their materials, and Philosophy has already met with Physics in forming the link between fields which once seemed poles apart...
...clean before, or so barren either, Vag mused as he fitted, in front of a vintage car driven awkwardly by a man in a striped tie. "The Frappe Bar of New England," Vag read aloud from the booming plate glass pronouncement that garnished the sagging street corner. "What a tag for old Mike to conjure with. He wouldn't know his Club these days. But what would he know in Cambridge...
Because she is the current First Lady of Tennis, Pauline usually chooses what tournaments she will play, demands and gets top expense money. Since the rest of the girls have little choice but to tag along, women's tennis today is known as the Betz Club. Its eastern home is with Delaware's wealthy tennis fan William du Pont, who subsidizes Ozzie, Bruffie and a dozen or so lesser lady tennists as much as the watchdog of amateur tennis, the U.S.L.T.A., allows. Betz owns to having been helped financially at one time (it is permissible to accept "gifts...
...return, U.S. players seemed to be playing a little rough. In Mexico City last week, leading hitter Duany thought Catcher Owen's tag-out at the plate was more of a punch than a tag. He knocked Owen down. Soon everybody...