Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale and Princeton leaned quite heavily on it. These schools implied that any preference lower than a "one" or a "two" would practically eliminate the candidate for admission. But, in the dark as to where a student's loyalties lie, the Yale Admission Office is now forced to tentatively admit more students, and to count on a greater number of withdrawals...
...explanation for the scarcity of Radcliffe girls on the list lies in the fact that Dartmouth men must submit the names of their dates to the newspaper in advance, and that there is no compulsion to make a man admit where his date is from...
...talks like this: "You take a real ugly bum . . . with a face a monkey would be ashamed of. Let him get a shave and a haircut and meet a broad. What's the first thing the broad says to him, she says you look cute tonight . . . I admit I look like a kangaroo . . . But every broad I take out tells me I'm cute. Soon as a dame says that, I know I can't trust...
...Usually their problems had been routine, for in all its 95 years, nothing much had ever ruffled the peaceful campus on the Cumberland plateau of Tennessee. But this time, the regents had a ticklish vote to take: Should they abide by the recommendation of the Fourth Province Synod and admit Negroes to the School of Theology? After hours of debate, the regents voted...
...campus promptly erupted with protests, and nine out of ten members of the theological faculty threatened to resign unless the regents reversed their decision. The regents replied that Tennessee requires segregation, that it would be flouting the state law to admit Negroes. But the nine, led by Dean Francis Brown, refused to be mollified, and one of them did pull out. "The position taken," said the rebels, "seems to us untenable in the light of Christian ethics...