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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman Debate Team last night convinced a Wellesley audience of 60 girls that "women do not prefer death to dishonor." Walker J. Blakey '62 and Terry W. Schwab '62 spoke for the Yardlings...
...Radcliffe that Ada Louise Comstock took over in 1923 was something of a makeshift institution. In 1879 a committee of Cambridge ladies asked Harvard President Charles W. Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their...
...Demand is feeding on success," said Lucien O. Hooper of Wall Street's W. E. Hutton & Co. It seemed an understatement indeed in a week when the stock market again surged to new highs, but it was the best explanation Wall Street had to offer for what has become the most spectacular phenomenon of the 1958 business recovery. On all but one day last week, stocks climbed to new records, closed the week at 564.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 10.42 for the week to an alltime record.* The Dow-Jones industrial average, most volatile...
...scramble for shares shows up most clearly in lower-priced stocks, which are more attractive to the public than higher-priced blue chips. When Lehman Bros, brought out its One William Street Fund at a price of $12.50, it got more shareholders in a day than F. W. Woolworth Co. (now selling for about 50) has had at any one time in its history. Last week issues selling for less than $25 a share numbered nine of the week's 15 most active stocks. Rumors of stock splits, and resulting lower prices per share, also sent higher-priced stocks...
Both sides of the Harvard team went undefeated. Speaking for the affirmative were Richard H. DeLone '62 and James S. Gordon '62. Walter Blakey, Jr. '62 and Richard W. Bulliet '62 debated the negative. Blakey was also named the best speaker in the tournament...