Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During last autumn's presidential campaign, friends invited Walter Wolfgang Heller, chairman of the University of Minnesota's economics department to attend a Democratic dinner in honor of Candidate John F. Kennedy. Heller decided to stay home. "I wasn't feeling very well," explains Heller's wife Emily, "and we were both tired. We don't mix in politics anyway." But to Emily's surprise, Heller decided after dinner to go out after all and take a look at the man who might be the next President of the U.S. As Heller approached...
...effect of realistic counseling is a reduction in multiple applications, which is all to the good. Yet ironically, competition is fiercer than ever. Because youngsters really want to attend the college they apply to, Ivy League campuses can no longer overbook freshmen classes, and may reject an even higher proportion of serious applicants. Colleges are not sure whether to fear or cheer the dropoff...
Partially because 'Cliffies attend classes with men, she commented, they receive only the masculine viewpoint. She criticized Radcliffe for "leaving no room for the irrational creative power which women possess. This is sweet and should not be lost...
...week's end Westinghouse's Chiles and Mauntel were led off in handcuffs to begin their sentences in a county jail in Norristown, Pa. The others, except for one who got permission to remain free another week to attend his daughter's engagement party, were to begin their sentences this week...
...Those who attend the Harvard Classes find in them a kind of a assuagement for never having attended a school of higher learning. It becomes so pleasant and so challenging for an experienced but unschooled adult to be given the opportunity to think like an adult, to think, really, with Socrates, Shakespeare, Freud, and Einstein...