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...latter course demands over-whelming ability. Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein have tried it, but opinions vary on the quality and importance of their most serious works; Archibald Davison gave up composing entirely for education. Such men are often rewarded--and rightly so--with greater fame and financial security than their more esoteric colleagues, but in the process they may easily draw professional jealousy...
...finalists for the Boylston Prize Speaking Contest have been chosen from a field of 35 contestants. They are: Paul L. DeVore '63, Peter A. Flynn '63, Nathaniel Frothingham '61, Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, David G. Gullette '62, Spencer Jourdain '62, Stanley F. Pickett '63, Phillip Stotter '63, William C. Taubman '62, and Gregg D. Wood '62. The prize winner will be selected from among these students on March...
...score, then again to the seven well-publicized Mercury astronauts. Last week, with all the nonchalance of Casey Stengel reeling off a pre-game batting order, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth narrowed the choice to three. The trio: Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn Jr., 39; Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom, 34; Navy Commander Alan Shepard Jr., 37. After the initial manned flight is scheduled-perhaps in two months-one of the three will be chosen to ride a Redstone-borne capsule on a relatively short 16-minute trip: about 115 miles up, 300 miles out over the Atlantic (essentially...
...Amherst Alumni News, President Calvin H. Plimpton quoted Amherst's application requirements for 1860: "Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and Sallust or Caesar's Commentaries, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, eight chapters; Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer's Iliad; English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, and two books of Loomis' Geometry or of Playfair's Euclid...
...women got home eventually, and everything would have been all right, all right if Wyatt and Virgil had not been home earlier-for the first time in weeks -and made a row big enough to raise all the dead in Tombstone...