Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the classrooms were empty, but the principal, Miss Eleanor P. McAuliffe,* refused to admit the Negro children. She had to refuse. District of Columbia officials interpret a law, passed by Congress in 1862, as requiring segregated public schools...
...incident still has me buffaloed, I am still wondering what the man of mystery was up to. I will admit that I do not actually know that he was a Harvard student, and I might say the incident occurred a half hour rather than fifteen minutes before the game began. It has been suggested that this individual may have been a prankster but his serious mien showed no evidence of it and he made his exit through the Harvard portal...
...should admit past mistakes and concentrate on the sounder aspects of its program. American political opinion is in an unhealthy state, infected by wars and fear of bigger wars. If it worsens, 1960 may find the ADA hauled before the Subversive Activities Control Board. If so, it will have fought the good fight, and lost. But if tensions ease, and hatreds and suspicions with them, the ADA will regain some public respect, and can pride itself on having weathered the storm without sacrificing either its existence or its principles...
...follow him found that Pierre Larousse was no one to hide his own opinions. He criticized the Roman Catholic Church (which promptly put his work on the Index), denounced the Emperor Napoleon III ("France . . . owes him an epitaph that could only be this: Napoleon the Last!"), refused to admit that General Bonaparte had ever become an emperor at all. As far as Larousse was concerned, Bonaparte should have dropped dead "at the Chateau de St. Cloud, near Paris, the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII* of the French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse no longer goes...
...Radcliffe's president is the first to admit that his growing college is still far from ideal. The most critical problems are of course financial. During the war and the years afterward, spiraling costs took a severe toll on the school's resources. Jordan tersely summarizes the strictures of these lean years in a sentence from his Report to the Trustees for 1949-50: "We have necessarily grown somewhat shabby during these recent years when the preparation of a budget could only be described as an act of faith...