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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total number of acceptances by the June 1 deadline reached 1,213, an increase of 58 students from the Class of 1962. The increased number of admissions was made possible by the opening of Quincy House, which will permit Freshmen to use most of Wigglesworth...
Applications for the incoming class established another new record for the College, reaching a total of 4,350. Last year, slightly over 4,200 students applied, and of this number 1,487 were accepted. The Admissions Office, apparently expecting an acceptance rate close to 1962's 73.8 per cent, was caught unaware by the high rate in the Class...
...Bunting was reluctant to take a definite stand at this time on the question of "integrating" Radcliffe with Harvard. She did say, however, that she thinks it "at least quite possible that total integration may be the right thing for Radcliffe...
...construction rose 31% over a year ago to $3.8 billion, setting a new April record. With construction contracts running 22% ahead of last year for 1959's first four months, industry leaders were upping their forecasts, now expect a gain of up to 13% over the 1958 construction total. Machine-tool orders in April rose to $53.4 million over March's $51.5 million...
Died. Edward A. Walsh, 78, one of baseball's great pitchers, whose dazzling spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance...