Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best fitted for academic decisions. The power lies with the Corporation but there has grown such an iron tradition of non-interference that its exercise is now sharply limited. Again, on paper, the Overseers could be rigorous in their supervision of the Corporation and the Administration. But in the twentieth century, the Overseers are more la pressure group than real authorities in the College government...
Perhaps the biggest news of 1928-29 was the coming House Plan. President Lowell marked the approach of his twentieth year with the announcement that his greatest wish would be fulfilled: the College would be subdivided. It was a major news event that inspired much unfavorable criticism from the Class...
...that free intercourse and friendship can voluntarily blossom if a student so wishes. Difficulties have come in refinishing this idea to the maximum. But while the plan is yet to be perfected, it does represent a striking advance over conditions in Cambridge during the first 25 years of the twentieth century...
Every year at least one twentieth-century Betsy Ross adds a couple of stars to the flag to welcome Hawaii and Alaska into the union. Congressional committees, impressed by Alaska's resources, excellent educational system, and strategic position, and Hawaii's economic strength and population have often recommended both territories for statehood...
Yale's versatile wrestling team took its twentieth straight H-Y victory from the Crimson Saturday afternoon as it outmaneuvered and generally outwrestied the varsity, winning 15 to 9, before a packed crowd in the I.A.B...