Word: attendance
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...trouble, the commission found, lay largely in the guidelines themselves. Francis Keppel, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, had allowed the districts to choose between two methods of integration. One, plainly subject to gerrymandering, would set up geographic boundaries within which all children, Negro and white, would attend the same schools. The other would leave Negroes free to attend any school of their choice that had vacant space. Most of the districts, and almost all of those in the Deep South, opted for the second method, thus putting the full burden of integration on the Negro himself...
...bullets fired into their homes. In Sumter County, Ga., a Negro mother was fired from her job within 24 hours after she had chosen a white school for her child. In Calhoun County, Miss., a Negro pupil registered for the seventh grade in a white school but failed to attend classes after her family was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan; the school board then told her she could not attend classes at all, since she had rejected "the school of her choice...
Goodman chastised the institute for its position. "We believe that an institution which has helped devise methods of sending men from one planet to another . . . can surely find a way to send traffic two miles from the Charles River to Somerville without the great personal hardships which will attend the presently-favored Brookline. Elm St. route...
While the other teams in the league attend daily practice sessions during January, our snowmen trudge through slush on their way to final exams. Consequently, the team gets its practice during the early meets and is always the most improved team during the season...
...important, by breaking with the NCAA, Ivy schools would lose their influence on national athletic programs. Several years ago, the Ivies were instrumental in the narrow defeat of a proposal in the NCAA to remove a year of eligibility from a student who signs a letter of intent to attend one college and then changes his mind. Ivy threats of participation in AAU meets last year during the NCAA-AAU dispute led to Congressional arbitration. Following such sharply opposing views in the past, the 1.600 rule seems to be a senseless conflict, especially since the motive of higher academic standards...