Word: yales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tech is one behind the 'Cliffe in fourth place, having received 66 Merit winners, and Stanford, Yale, and Princeton complete the first seven. Altogether, 2,316 Merit Scholars have enrolled in a total of 343 colleges...
...Harvard Rifle Team upset a strong Princeton squad to capture the Ivy rifle crown in the League tournament Saturday at New Haven. The Crimson compiled an impressive score of 1403 points, as Yale took second with 1388. Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell finished third, fourth, and fifth respectively...
Dick Murphy was Harvard's high scorer with a total of 285 points, placing second to Yale's Mac Blair, who tallied 291, the highest individual score in the history of the tournament. John Phelps, Ron Simon, Bill Granik, and Will Garrison also qualified. The Crimson's three runners-up were Jim Brown, John North and Shaun Scanlon...
...early luminary of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, which developed such formgivers as Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, Albers came to the U.S. when Hitler closed the Bauhaus, taught at Black Mountain College and later headed Yale's Department of Design. At 70, Albers has the granitic and yet sensitive face of a northern Dante; though recently retired, he still finds opportunities to teach. "To distribute spiritual possessions," he may say to one shy talent, "is to multiply them." To another, more flamboyant, he may murmur in passing, "Calm down...
...week's end, six schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Antioch, Princeton, Swarthmore and Reed-had refused to accept money under the act. Other schools are accepting funds but protesting the oaths. Presidents Nathan Pusey of Harvard and A. Whitney Griswold of Yale praised Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming for criticizing the oaths, and Griswold wrote: "In our eyes, such measures are at best odious symbols, at worst a potential threat to our profession . . . Belief cannot be coerced or compelled." Other institutions whose heads object to the provision: Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, the University of Wisconsin and Atlanta...