Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic life. But his fatherly former freshman adviser, Chairman Whitney Oates of the classics department, had no intention of letting Goheen out of Princeton's sight. He saw to it that his former student received one of the first four Woodrow Wilson Fellowships designed to attract young talent into teaching. In 1948, Goheen got his Ph.D., settled back into the pleasant routine of faculty life...
...provide at least an equal sum. About 250 freshmen each year are offered "priority" jobs before they get to college, usually as part of a Scholarship grant, but sometimes because they need the money and have not won a scholarship. Casual jobs may net students with some useful talent as much as $300 a year...
...master of the cruder kinds of deadpantomime. Glenn Ford is amiable as young Captain Fisby; Machiko Kyo, one of the most gifted of Japanese cinemac tresses, is pleasantly giggly in a part that scarcely taxes her abilities. As Sakini, Marlon Brando seems to proclaim with every gesture that his talent is too big for his coolie britches...
There is no doubt about it. The 1956 hockey squad, defender of three consecutive Ivy championships, has assembled one of the greatest gatherings of potential talent in over 20 years at Harvard...
...Coach Weiland can produce the necessary playmakers from this list of hockey talent, then certainly no expectations are too high for the varsity. Even without standouts like Bill Cleary and goalie Charlie Flynn, the sextet could match up to the Crimson's best--the 1954 Eastern champions who were invited to the National Tourney at Colorado Springs...