Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent search program" was proposed last summer at a meeting of Ivy League financial officials, according to Fred L. Glimp '50, dean of admissions. Yale's John McCarthy, assistant director of admissions, has traveled into the South to qualified high school seniors and encourage them to apply to Ivy colleges. McCarthy also talked to tenth and eleventh graders about entrance requirements, and sought out citizens willing to recommend students and to advise them on applications procedure...
...unless the talent search project becomes the precursor of a larger and permanent program, Harvard and the other Ivy League colleges will continue to find very few Southern Negroes who can meet their standards...
Despite this plethora of talent and quality in Harvard's back yard, a trip across the Charles is frequently worthwhile. The Cafe Yana, on Brookline St. just over the railroad bridge from Kenmore Square, seems to have recovered from a severe case of amateurism. Bolstered by a recent folding green transfusion, it specializes in importing the best of New York folk singers who, however, seldom equal their Boston counterparts. Several coups of the Cafe Yana include a week of Gary Davis, an upcoming three weeks of Rolf Cahn and reported future bookings of Big Joe Williams and Sleepy John Estes...
...Cornelia Skinner, a distinguished actress. At the time I was 16 years old and I was with two other young people who were both totally awed by the woman. But I was not. To me, she was merely a likeable woman blessed with fortune and a good deal of talent. She was nothing more or less than a human being as much as the workman or Billy DeBord...
Against this formidable array of talent, Wilson will send his usual five. Harvard is the inly Ivy team without a representative on the list of ten top scorers, but then this gives the Crimson a "balanced" attack. In seven league contests, six different players have taken game scoring honors, although no one has broken the 20-point barrier...