Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winds whipped the dry snow into waist-high drifts around the little police station at the Austrian border town of Rechnitz. Inside, a policeman huddled close to a well-tended fire. Suddenly there was a knock, and the door slammed open to admit a wintry blast of air and a man with a baby in his arms. "Please," he muttered. "Out there. My wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized...
...utterly tired of having to ask. beg or haggle for every dollar and over the acceptance of every refugee." His complaint is directed chiefly against the U.S., which, if it took in as many refugees in proportion to its size and wealth as has Austria, would have to "admit 500,000 Hungarian refugees instead of 24,000." Most of the 65,000 still in Austria refuse to go on to other European countries, he added, for fear "they will lose their chance of being admitted to the U.S.": under present U.S. law, Hungarians are no longer regarded as refugees once...
...Doren is the first to admit that he is no genius and can claim neither a photographic memory nor total recall. Indeed, most of his education was in schools that had little interest in memory work or tests, regarded facts as mere accessories in the handling of ideas and the development of taste and reasoning. Some of his classmates at St. John's College in Annapolis, famed for its "great books" course and its cloistered devotion to scholarship, say that Van Doren's quiz wizardry flies ironically in the face of what the college and Charlie himself stand...
Then, "with tremendous relief," Charlie began studying for a Ph.D. in his father's field, "but I still refused to admit that I might follow in my father's footsteps as a teacher." In 1951 he won a $3,000 traveling fellowship-the same one that Mark had won at Columbia in 1919-and went to Cambridge University to research his dissertation on 18th century English Poet William Cowper. But Cambridge proved frustrating, and before the academic year was out, he left abruptly for Paris "under something of a pall, without fulfilling certain obligations." According to his Cambridge...
...control the numbers." Adds President Jean Paul Mather of the University of Massachusetts, which is studying a plan to consider only the top 20% of state high-school students: "In the future, we are going to have to place a tremendous faith in tests. We are the first to admit that there are faults in this, but for us it is not a matter of expediency. It is a matter of necessity. We have to get the horde off our necks." Retention v. Admission. As the standards go up at both private and public institutions, some educators have begun...