Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe Club of Boston has chosen today's GBCs to simulate the famed English Henley Regatta in a scholarship fundraising affair. Master-mind of the benefit, Virginia Mannick '49, said yesterday, "We hope to raise $5000 in scholarships with about 300 people attending the post-race luncheon...
...Columbia to organize two consortiums. In one, Cornell and Harvard will jointly plan an international medical complex; the other, including the universities of Michigan, Chicago, West Virginia and Maryland, is to plan a school of social welfare...
Nick spoke glowingly about the full scale replica structure that awaited us, near the Vanderbilt campus. "My grandfather would have loved to see it," said Nick. It turns out that Nick learned the motel business from his grandfather in West Virginia, and Nick was not averse to playing up to the crafty old gentleman's desire to leave his fortune in good hands. Nick was all ready to be the old gentleman's guide on a return to Greece, the fatherland, until Nick's father, seeing a threat to the line of succession, told the boy to scram back...
Phoenician Women. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek," said Virginia Woolf, "because in our ignorance we should be the last in a classroom of schoolboys, for we do not even know how the language sounded..." This is the annual Greek-play-presented-in Greek. People who will understand the Greek already know much more than I do about the play. For those of us without Greek, past experience with these productions has led to a belief that they can be beautiful, fascinating experiences even for those who understand nothing directly, especially if you read...
...angry observation of Dan Merwin, a fireman in Girard, Ohio: "They're going down the drain without a fight, and we're still talking of sending them hundreds of millions of dollars? I don't understand it. We've got people starving in West Virginia." Echoed a construction worker in Wilmington, Del.: "All that money that Ford wants to waste in Indochina could do a helluva lot more good in the U.S.A...