Word: attender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Lyon Mackenzie King had represented Canada at international conferences ever since 1908. This year, before he finally retired, he wanted to attend just one more: the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). To be sure he made it, he had the conference postponed four months, until the August Liberal convention...
...traditional French emphasis on classics and seminary studies was restored. Prejudices flared up again, and so did fist fights and near riots among the students. In 1929, the Catholic Church sanctioned an Irish college (St. Patrick's) in Ottawa for those who did not want to attend the university...
...grant a new degree of B.G.S. (Bachelor of General Studies)-"not a B.A.," says Conant, "but something that sounds just as near like it as you can come." Then, Conant thinks, only the walk-a-little-faster group, those with genuine aptitude for the professions, will be inclined to attend a university. On this count, Conant finds himself squarely against the President's Commission on Higher Education, which would almost double the number of university students by 1960 ("much too ambitious...
...name, has proposed a new title, Bachelor of General Studies, for many millions of his countrymen. In his latest book, "Education in a Divided World," the President has again propounded his "community college" plan, designed to carry education through the thirteenth and fourteenth years for those Americans unable to attend four-year institutions. Community colleges are to be free, easily accessible schools which complete their work in two years and then grant to their graduates the "B.G.S." degree...
Oppenheim refused to attend the meeting that unanimously--with one abstention--impeached him; but in a letter to the club he attacked the "asinine and public" manner in which the proceedings were conducted, and said that he would always "remain a democrat with a small...