Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dilemma of higher education can be summarized in one word--expansion. The number of students wishing to attend college will more than double by 1965. To meet their demands, colleges quite obviously must expand greatly. Presumably, the conference will seek a solution for this question, bearing in mind the possibility of federal aid or even former President Conant's suggestion of a vast junior college program. If, like the public school representatives, the delegates do propose federal support, they must decide whether the aid should go only to state schools, or to private universities as well...
...After 14 months of bitter bickering, the Lake County (Fla.) school board finally closed the case of Fruit Picker Allan Platt's five school-age, part-Indian children who were falsely declared to be Negroes and were thus denied the right to attend a white school (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). Since the board found that it could not legally prove that the Platts are Negroes, it decided not to appeal the decision of a circuit-court judge allowing the Platts to attend whatever white schools in Florida they choose. ¶ The Regents of the University...
Boyd decreed that Memphis State University--and thus other state schools--would have to admit Negroes on a gradual basis by grade levels. He delivered a stair-step ruling which will enable Negroes to attend the graduate school in this coming half term; to enter as seniors in the fall of 1956; and to enroll as juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in successive years...
...while Oscar is a grind. The story centers around preparation for a final exam in Harvard's Philosophy 4. Bertie and Billy pay Oscar to tutor them in the course material, because with playing tennis, taking carriage rides, and learning to be men, they have not found time to attend lectures or do the reading. The day before the exam Bertie and Billy, tired of the city, go out to the country and visit a tavern; Oscar stays in his cheaply furnished room to study. As might be expected, Bertie and Billy get higher marks in the exam than Oscar...
...Joan Gaynor, the lecturer who recently urged students to attend the Red-sponsored 1957 Moscow Youth Festival, yesterday asserted that she would like to make a return engagement if she could obtain the invitation and financial backing of some group at the University...