Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe accepted 25 such applicants; this year only nine were admitted. The shortage of housing space--a perennial problem since the Second World War--leaves the College with just barely enough room for the freshman class and makes a substantial number of transfers unthinkable. Describing the dilemma in 1958, Jordan declared that "fully ten per cent of the places in this college belong as of academic right" to transfer applicants who wish to major in esoteric subjects not taught elsewhere or to use expensive equipment unavailable at other colleges. He did not, however, mention a third reason now considered thoroughly...
...tiny-minority argument is valid in Georgia and South Carolina, what of heavily Roman Catholic New Orleans, where Catholics have wound up in the same dilemma of spirit v. reality? New Orleans' ailing, octogenarian Archbishop Joseph Rummel spoke out sharply and clearly against school segregation as early as 1954. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament recently advertised in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Forced segregation violates both justice and charity." But when the school crisis came last fall, the archbishop postponed parochial school desegregation until public school integration "has been effectively carried out." The wholly temporal reason was that...
...courses, reading lists, and grades. But it would be hard to deny that not all are so well qualified: there is always the possibility of students using the time for independent studies to relax or to do work in other courses. This poses the Faculty and Administration with a dilemma: how does one prevent abuses without depriving the student of his independence in studying...
...also does not recognize the dilemma of intelligent girls forced to complete academically with men who, on the whole, are not as bright. Too, the need at once to succeed and to seem not to work creates a real tension for many who must work hard to do well...
...things to come under Kennedy; Berlin and, to a lesser extent, re-unification haunt the Germans, who feel that any change in the perpetual Berlin crisis is automatically a catastrophe and want new reassurance from the U.S. Bonn's recent offer to ease America's balance of payments dilemma and the forthcoming visit of Foreign Minister von Brentano on the sixteenth testify to this anxiety...