Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing President Pomfret seemed to care about was a big-time football team. Though he looked more like a small-town banker than a scholar, John Edwin Pomfret had won a solid reputation as a historian at the University of South Carolina and Princeton long before he came to Virginia's ancient* College of William and Mary (enrollment 1,800). When William and Mary called him in 1942, he was dean of the graduate school at Vanderbilt University. His plan for W. & M.: to give it one of the first-rate academic programs in the South...
Captain Horatio Hornblower.Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo in a rousing swashbuckler based on the C. S. Forester novel (TIME, Sept...
Geographically, the class seems to be concentrated in the Northeastern United States, although the students come from 36 different states. Massachusetts, for example, leads with 77, with New York (55) and Connecticut (26) trailing. The South is very lightly represented, with only one state, Virginia, sending as many as six girls. The Far West also lacks strength: '55 boasts only eight Californians...
...Down in Darkness, by William Styron. Decay and aimlessness in country-club Virginia; a first novel by a 26-year-old Southerner who writes well if not refreshingly (TIME, Sept...
...direct service to the squad in 1947 while the players were taking a terrible physical beating from Virginia, 47 to 0. During a time-out period late in the game, there was no one left to carry out the water bucket, so Benny did. Time came back in sooner than Benny expected, and he just had time to dash off the field on the opposite side from the Harvard bench...