Word: byron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JULIUS BYRON LEVINE...
...appeal of the new seminar program has induced nine men to spend the year as Freshmen, while four others turned down advanced standing because of distribution requirements. They hesitated to choose a field of concentration "so early in their college careers," according to Byron Stooky, Associate Director of Advanced Standing...
...Leeches. The story above all others that makes the book worthwhile is the money story. Before the big foundations were founded and before universities handed out lectureships to writers, most poetic achievement involved two persons, the poet and the patron. But Shelley and Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary...
...proposals for the individual workshops. Meanwhile, it delegated much of its straight administrative work to the Office of Advanced Standing. And upon this office has now devolved the job of maintaining some semblance of order amidst the welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space for the workshops, of locating all problems of detail and trying to get them...
...Harvard representatives performed well, but pitcher Byron Johnson, shortstop Bill Rodgers, and outfielder Maurice Balboni must be singled out for heroes' honors...