Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame does not rest entirely on the students. Why, one might ask, do language departments insist upon sending their gentlest and least experienced members to face the unfeeling recalcitrance of the requirement class? And why, in some cases, do these teachers freely admit to their classes that, after all, this is only a requirement course and will probably be very dull for both teacher and student? After such a beginning it certainly will...
...talent, attracted by State's winning ways, a $3,500,000 athletic plant* and a big and diversified college (enrollment: 14,600). Some of Munn's best players have been mined from the football-rich hills of Pennsylvania, but even Michigan State's most envious detractors admit that the Spartans beat the bushes for talent no more fervently than a lot of other colleges...
Because of the problem of getting widespread geographical representation, at Columbia more than most Ivy schools, it is easier for the Western applicant to be admitted. Ireland says that "since we do want to spread our student body as much as possible we admit a much higher proportion of qualified students from the outlying area." Ireland frankly admits that he would like to have more Western applications--although he personally feels that currently no matter how many applications Columbia receives, it will stick to its ideal three part ratio: one third of the students from the metropolitan area, one third...
...right now I'll have to admit things look Black...
...battle began when a series of incidents made parents realize that something was radically wrong. One little boy confessed that he could not read the postcards his mother had sent him from Honolulu. A teen-age grocery clerk had to admit that he could not read handwritten orders. Another boy told his mother that he could not decipher his pen pal's letters. A little girl said she could not sign her name "because I can't do capitals." Last May six mothers and fathers finally formed a Parents' Research Committee to look into the matter further...