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Admissions standards for matriculated students were raised to accord with those in effect in the college. And the acting director of G. S., John A. Krout, who succeeded Ayres upon the latter's death, asserted in March, 1949, that the level of teaching was equal in the two depart- ments. The only difference, he said, was in the age of students, which averaged 18 in the college...
...accord with a council-decision, the 1951 and future yearbooks will be All College and self-perpetuating organizations, instead of merely senior class enterprises...
...RUSSIA REACH ACCORD; ATOMIC POWER HARNESSED TO PEACE
Regent John Francis Neylan, San Francisco attorney who voted for the oath and ultimatum, stated that the whole issue could be reduced to the question "shall the Regents accord to each card-carrying Communist the confidence, the respect, and the privileges accorded to the distinguished scholars who have made the university a great seat of learning?" but an authorized spokesman for the Academic Senate made it clear that the faculty did not want Communists on the faculty. "We have patiently tried to settle this bugaboo of repudiation, but Regent Neylan has been unwilling to listen," Professor Malcolm Davisson stated...
...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...