Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale seems to be winning today a fight Harvard lost in 1949. Laws against educational discrimination probably will not pass the Connecticut legislation this year, although a hearing was held last week...
Today in Hartford the anti-discrimination bills face defeat, not because of university opposition but because of religious pressure. In 1945 and 1949 stronger bills went down to defeat in Connecticut, including one saying that a school would lose its tax exemption if charges of discrimination were found valid...
...hearings last week the Yale administration--speaking also for Connecticut College for Women, Wesleyan, Trinity and the Catholic colleges--said that the bills "assume evils which do not exist" and that "legislation is not appropriate to attain the desired...
...admission blanks do not ask "discriminatory questions" under the terms of the legislation both in Connecticut or Massachusetts. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Jewish Conference did appear in support of the bills, charging that private schools show "definite racial discrimination" in their admissions policies...
...John's 63. Connecticut...