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Thirty students were contacted. Twentyfour were against the proposal, five favored it and one had no opinion. Twenty of the students were freshmen, with 16 of these opposed to the proposal, three in favor of it, and one with no opinion...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Students Oppose Task Force Proposal For No-Choice House Assigment Plan | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

Members of Ethos, a black student group, threatened a hunger strike if the demands contained in an open letter sent at 9 a.m. yesterday to Miss Ruth Adams, president of the college, were not met "unequivocally" within twentyfour hours...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Wellesley Blacks Threaten Strike, Win Concessions | 5/8/1968 | See Source »

Recalling the world conditions at the time of his graduation in 1932, Adams told the graduates that "the condition of the world is indeed a complicated and confused one compared with the serenity of the scene as we contemplated it twentyfour years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Calls On NROTC Officers To Serve Navy With Enthusiasm | 6/13/1956 | See Source »

...Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prisoner | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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