Word: allow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major effort to find out what other kinds of things work in upgrading the slums, the Ford Foundation last week announced that it will grant $10,800,000 to four universities-Chicago, Harvard, M.I.T. and Columbia-for studies of inner-city problems. The money will allow the universities to endow 14 major chairs in urbanology, provide also for the training of 65 doctoral candidates, 390 graduate students and 390 undergraduates...
...Bengal immediately organized a protest against the Congress Party takeover, and the result was violence in Calcutta, where workers closed down plants and offices, set fire to autos and battled police. Though no Communist himself, the Speaker of the West Bengal house chose to suspend the legislature rather than allow the new Congress-supported government to take office. In the volatile Punjab, religious leaders greeted the Congress move as an attack on the Sikhs and warned their followers to defend themselves. The Congress Party had used its muscle to recapture states that it could not win at the ballot...
Nothing is quite so frustrating to the school administrator as the annual task of working out schedules. Ideally, different courses should be allowed differing amounts of class time: some teachers are better off lecturing large groups, others consulting with a few students at a time; some students should be allowed more unsupervised study time than others. But almost always, the flexibility that would allow such variations is utterly lacking. To match his school's resources to its students' needs, the educator is forced back to the familiar 50-minute class for every course, the same old allotment...
...Harvard Policy Committee will allow SDS to use its offices in 52 Dunster Street as a draft counseling center for Harvard students. The HPC made the agreement after the Administration had refused to provide SDS with its own University office for distributing draft information...
...strongest argument against RUS is that it will not work at the present time. The College Council will probably not accept a student government which proposes to make its own rules. And it will definitely not allow student representation on the Council...