Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluntly," said Rickover, "our schools do not perform their primary purpose, which is to train the nation's brain power to the highest potential . . . We shall not do justice to our talented youth until we seek them out at an early age-no later than ten or eleven-and educate them separately...
KILLARNEY VACATION haven will be developed by James Robertson, Florida buyer of 163-acre island in Killarney's lower lake (TIME, Aug. 20). Real Estate Broker Robertson will build 20 thatched-roof, ranch-type bungalows of eleven rooms each, offer them for sale at $42,000 to $56,000 apiece...
...principle of mature entertainment in the room is accepted by the Administration, but somehow a magical aura has attached to eleven as the final hour. Some of the conservatism is perfectly logical; those who think parietal hours are a Bad Thing will fight any extension at all. The only justification offered for mystical eleven is that roomates would be inconvenienced by an extension of the hours...
...adjust himself to staying until it closes, and then patronize one of Cambridge's excellent food or drink shops until midnight. But essentially this is a problem for roommates to work out among themselves, and it could be done as easily for midnight parietals as it now is for eleven...
...Masters should see the pointlessness of the eleven p.m. hour, which was a Student Council idea originally, and extend Saturday room permission until midnight...