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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patrick Henry could hang out his shingle in Hanover, Va. after only six weeks of studying law. But has it come far enough? Are law schools really doing their job? Last week, in a special report sponsored by the American Bar Association (Legal Education in the United States] Bancroft-Whitney; $3.50), Dean Albert J. Harno of the University of Illinois law school answered no: legal education is suffering from the same symptoms of constriction and indigestion as is U.S. education in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This Side of Chaos | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Maney Shea, of Newtonville and Moors, Hall, defeated Barbara Whitney for class agent in yesterday's vote of Radcliffe seniors for their permanent class officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Picks Shea Class Agent | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...meter pool, the six were almost neck & neck. Then, almost imperceptibly, McLane began to draw away. Porpoising along at a steady 35 strokes to a length, he won last week's National A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship by a full length of Yale's Payne Whitney pool. Among the topflight swimmers Jimmy McLane left in his wake were Olympians John Marshall (of Australia and Yale), Peter Duncan (of South Africa and the University of Oklahoma), and Wayne Moore (of Nichols, Conn, and Yale). For McLane, it was a splashy comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 Again | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Based on the work of a committee headed by Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold. The other members: Chancellors Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University, Franklin Murphy of the University of Kansas, Presidents J. E. Wallace Sterling of Stanford, Henry Wriston of Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: COMMUNISM and the COLLEGES | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...graduate of Princeton, Whitney Darrow, Jr, has been contributing cartoons to the New Yorker for almost 20 years. His drawings have been collected in two books, "You're Sitting on My Eyelashes" and "Please Pass the Hostess." This is the eighth of the series on Harvard's next president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High-Pressure President | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

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