Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft's effect on Harvard can be most clearly seen not in actual enrollment losses, but in the increased percentage of students who decided not to attend after being admitted...
...Graduate School of Education, 30 per cent of those admitted normally do not attend. This year, the figure was 45 per cent. The percentage at the Law School rose ten points from about 32 to 42 per cent. Admittance figures for the Graduates School of Arts and Sciences are unavailable...
FRED N., 35, is a regional-sales representative in California. He was educated at Roman Catholic schools from first grade through college. He and his wife Cathy, 31, are regular worshipers at their parish church; their three daughters attend its parochial school; one young son is still at home. Convinced that they cannot afford to have more children, Fred and Cathy for the past few years have practiced birth control. Otherwise, they are loyal Catholics-and typical in their disaffection from what they feel are the church's outdated ways, in their hopes for further renewal...
Some 700 girls from 22 Eastern colleges were invited to New Haven to live in rooms vacated by their male occupants, eat in college dining halls, attend Yale classes, and generally brighten campus perspectives for Yale men. The administration gave its nervous approval and reported with relief that the experiment was surprisingly successful. The planning and organization were smooth, and no untoward incidents were reported, no criticism voiced. It was all so rewarding, in fact, that President Kingman Brewster Jr. accelerated his own plans to bring coeducation to Yale. Last week, while his undergraduates were still savoring the female invasion...
Illness: Because you are sickly, you rarely attend school. Around the house you're always underfoot; they give you a drum kit to keep busy. As a consequence of your obession with drums you are unfit for useful work. It looks like you're going to be a ne'er-do-well, so you get together with some other kids who are also ne'er-do-wells and form a rock group. At your first recording session another group asks you to be their drummer. You join them; change your name to Ringo; and escape oblivion for fame and influence...