Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the fence, many administrators and faculty members think that the University must expand at any cost. Faced by statistics which predict the doubling of applications to the College by 1965, they advocate that Harvard admit six or seven thousand students, even if it requires thousand--man lectures and the climination of tutorial. Such changes, however, might constitute a radical transformation in the education the College now offers. They would open the door to increasing mediocrity in instruction and physical facilities: an after-dinner sleep for Harvard College...
...expansion kept even pace with the demand, and the demand itself was so small that anyone who could pass the entrance tests was almost guaranteed admission. No longer can the University even begin to cope with the demand. Probably no one--in his wildest dreams--thinks that Harvard could admit the several thousand qualified applicants to the freshman class which it expects by 1965. But any enrollment short of that figure is just as arbitrary as the present limit...
They kept a conscientious watch on the murderers, thieves and other criminals who were their wards, and they released term-enders on schedule. But they refused to admit new convicts, barred lawyers from seeing their clients, and would not deliver up jailed defendants to court for trial. Visiting hours were canceled, rock-breaking ceased, and in their cells prisoners enjoyed a relaxed if fettered vacation. The Paris police prefecture, which handles a big transient traffic in felons, found itself overwhelmed with unwanted undesirables...
...defense will ask Aldrich to admit testimony to the trial record which it took out of turn from McCarthy and his former chief counsel Roy M. Cohn three weeks...
Replacing both the antagonistic propaganda of the Cold War and the Chimerical hopes of July in Geneva, the new Administration attitude should admit that agreement on the major issues of Germany and disarmament still lies far in the future. The United States, while continuing to negotiate on these questions, should focus the world's attention on the steps toward peace that definitely can be taken at this time--the expansion of East-West contacts, for example. Progress in this field, if continued long enough, may eventually transform the Spirit of Geneva into a world-wide spirit that will make Geneva...