Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been at Cornell almost since the beginning. Evidently Ezra Cornell an Andrew Dickson White had it in their heads all the time to admit women to study at their college, although they were afraid to ask the state legislature to charter a co-educational university--that sort of thing just wasn't done in the East at the time. At any rate, they were careful to see that the charter did not specifically forbid co-education...
Last fall premature announcements were made that Princeton was about to put the Blackmer report--which proposed wide spread changes designed to speed up the work of the superior student--into effect, and admit qualified eleventh graders...
...futility, the indomitable Foster Dulles, soon to enplane for the London Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), was still hopeful. "We [of the U.S.] believe that international peace is an attainable goal," he said. "That is the premise that underlies all our planning. We propose never to desist, never to admit discouragement, but confidently and steadily so to act that peace becomes for us a sustaining principle of action...
Until this fall, the town's Negroes had gone to a Negro high school in Dover, 19 miles away. But in view of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, the Milford school board decided that it would admit Negro students to the tenth grade. As a result, 1,500 citizens jammed into the American Legion hall to protest. A few, nights later, 1,000 more presented the school board with a petition demanding that the Negroes be dropped. A group even paid a midnight visit to Board President W. Dean Kimmel, warned him that some of their numbers...
Through the winter of '46, when babies were wrapped in newspapers and thousands of Berliners froze to death, the Altmanns survived (though they would not admit it even to themselves) on the proceeds of Fritz's black-marketeering, on Frances Faviell's charity and on Ursula's sex appeal. Then Fritz fell afoul of the West Berlin police and fled to the Communists. Old Herr Altmann died, and shortly afterwards, Lilli collapsed while dancing. Though her mother would not believe it, frail little Lilli had had an abortion. She died murmuring "Vova," the nickname of some...