Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such delirium, delegates were soberly concerned about the campaign issues. Even Humphrey had to admit that "the struggle in Viet Nam has overshadowed the record of domestic progress." Nonetheless, he urged, "it's your duty to put this in perspective. We're spending $1 billion more this year than last on the children of the poor. I hope we can bring this tragic war to a close. But I hope that those who complain that Viet Nam is choking our spending at home will, after the war is over, be among the first to pass legislation...
...honors tutorial. If the requirement were raised to Group IV, and Group III for History 99, some students would be rejected because of low grades in Natural Sciences and the like--which have nothing to do with their fitness for honors tutorial. The present system allows the Department to admit al those who are interested and qualified, regardless of grades in other courses, and to allow tutors to weed out those who are unable or unwilling to do the work...
...happier. Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (known to his friends as "Pinch") was the only Negro Governor Louisiana ever had. He is best remembered as a founding father in 1880 of Southern University-a 6,800-student state college in Baton Rouge, whose personal albatross is that it must admit every accredited high school graduate in the state, regardless of whether...
...always perfect, and the professor almost always referred to them in class and posted them as models, sometimes saying hopefully "If Stephen Potter is here, will he please come forward?" One of the lab assistants called him to ask why he never came to lab, and Potter had to admit that he wasn't registered for the course...
...best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently. He has recently gone out of his way to make a second career as a duo pianist, sharing the billing with St. Louisian Malcolm Frager. And though still wryly withdrawn, he has lately come to admit that he likes Americans in general: "The applause is so nice; American audiences are so very, very warm...