Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upperclassmen could also facilitate the choice of majors by putting advisees into contact with students in various fields. At present, the only organized way for a freshman to hear a personal account of what it's like to major in a field like history is to attend the concentration meeting, where he hasn't much chance to ask his own personal questions. Putting him in touch with different students in the field would give him the opportunity to explore thoroughly what a history concentrator reads, writes about, and is expected to think about...
...world, seminarians have been given more opportunity to study the secular culture they will be living in after their ordination. At Chicago's St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, once among the nation's most straitlaced, students can now have their own radios, are encouraged to attend plays, concerts and lectures in town. With their rector's permission, two seminarians from St. Patrick's of San Francisco periodically tour the city's homosexual bars with vice-squad cops for a sociological survey...
...world of scholarship, B.S. and B.A. diplomas have turned into routine pieces of paper; sheepskins with status carry the words "master" or "doctor." Three-fourths of all college seniors now say they intend to attend graduate schools. The 314,000 graduate students in the U.S. in 1960 have grown to 510,000 today...
Unlike past surveys, the current study tabulated seniors' announced plans, rather than waiting to see what they actually do. Thus, according to Miss Albro, some of the seniors who said they wanted to go to graduate school may not actually attend next year...
...action-religious, economic and political-that marks his movement today. He took on the Mafia, which controlled illegal trawler fleets that were robbing the local fishermen of their livelihood. He played the organ in church and criticized the parish priest for his refusal to allow barefoot children to attend Mass. He begged money for food for the starving. He tried to do something about the ancient stink of the picturesque airless houses and to stop children playing in the open sewers. He discovered that when appeals to charity failed, he could exploit a flair for dramatizing unpleasant statistics and shame...