Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three thousand miles away in Los Angeles the National Collegiate Athletic Association is holding its 50th annual convention. One of the major issues before the delegates, one of whom is Athletic Director Thomas Bolles, will be whether they should retain last year's plan of national and regional telecasts...
...last minute lay-up by Bob Hastings allowed the varsity to squeak by Saturday night with both a 60-59 victory over M.I.T. and coup of the highly unofficial city championship of Cambridge. A noisy crowd of over a thousand watched the tense goings-on at the Tech field house...
...Write a thousand words a day for the next five years ... A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself...
...Five thousand may turn out to be too big or too small, but it seems to me a reasonable if generous estimate of the number of bona fide first-choice candidates of top quality we would be likely to get at the peak of the tidal wave. I emphasize it because I feel that the astronomical figures of total college enrollment which have been used so loosely have obscured the scope and nature of Harvard's problem and it is desirable to try to define as concretely as possible the magnitude of the pressure we will face...
...quality of Harvard instruction. Yet largely because of the expansion in size over the pre-war College which has already occurred we are using them much more extensively than before. Table 7 in the Notes on Harvard College offers illuminating evidence on this. If we add a thousand or more undergraduates we shall inevitably have to use Teaching Fellows even more extensively, with a further decline in the quality of instruction...