Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California Bears lost their first match last Saturday to the University of British Columbia after ten straight undefeated games. Also during the weekend Yale defeated M.I.T., 5 to 3, at Smith College...
...Monotype or Finn Class selection on the U.S. Sailing team. Tommy Townsend, a former Marblehead 110 champion, will face a field of 12 in Fireflies with the winner earning the right to represent the NEISA in the Olympic finals at Marion, Mass., on June 12-17. Strong winds this weekend could eliminate Townsend early in the competition, however, since he is extremely light (150 lbs.) for this class. The Melbourne Olympic yachting games will be held next November on Port Philip...
...school construction-a jump of $175 million over 1954. ¶ Reporting on British industry's annual hunt for fresh university graduates, a writer in the London Times described the effect it is having on the mores of the new alumnus. Example: "One physicist I know has spent every weekend since he came down from the university voyaging up and down the country in first-class compartments to interviews, lodging at four-star hotels, dining with directors and drinking more than is good for him. He has no intention of taking any of the posts he is offered, since...
Modern electronics made an unfortunate debut in the NCAA swimming championships at Yale last weekend. It all started when meet officials announced that a new "electronic machine" would be used to determine the order of finish. The machine had worked well in Big Ten meets, they explained, and should do away with much of the confusion which has plagued recent championships...
...very tired "greatest swimming team in Harvard history," one which has set Crimson records in every event but the backstroke, ironically gave one of its poorest performances of recent years in the NCAA championships at Yale last weekend...