Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boards and personnel managers continue to rely upon test scores for an easy, quick, "objective" standard. In some parts of the country, state law now sets specific SAT and LSAT cut-off scores for admission to state universities. In the 1971 Federal court case of Baker et al. v. Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score of 1,000 for hiring and promotion created a racist classification. While 90 per cent of the white graduates of Mississippi colleges scores...
...Americans celebrated Columbus Day, a Harvard professor reiterated his belief that neither Columbus nor Leif Ericson was the first European to reach the New World...
...believe it is unjust and unwarranted that I and many fellow Jews are obliged to miss important early classes for Yom Kippur. It further rankles that classes are scheduled on Yom Kippur, a day that is sacred to a significant percentage of the Harvard community, but not scheduled on Columbus Day, which is a meaningless holiday to nearly everyone...
...obviously puts some students at an academic disadvantage. Remedially, a school calendar that started a day earlier or ended a day later or that neglected to observe Columbus Day (or perhaps that was one day shorter) would put no one at an academic disadvantage. Minimally, there ought to be provision for taping lectures...
...America has its own classical language with a literature, dating back 2000 years before Columbus," Fell said...