Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the honor of being National Merit Scholars. Others got small grants of $100, still others were marked down for as much as $2,100 a year. N.M.S. also gave to the colleges the students picked (the favorites: Harvard, M.I.T., Caltech and Cornell) an amount, up to $750. equal to each college's tuition. But the more important boon to U.S. higher education lies in the young talent it has spotlighted, much of which it might never have seen. Among the 1956 winners...
...male teachers hold down after-hours jobs to make ends meet. Most communities (74%) take it for granted that teachers should perform after-school duties with no extra pay. Only 18% of the parents said they would like to see their sons go into teaching, but an almost equal number said "Absolutely...
...President. But Protestant Moses is sure he will be remembered far longer for his effect on Hinduism. His neo-Vedantism, says Moses, "has newly interpreted the basic conceptions of Hinduism." Since the classic commentators of the 13th century and before, "we have not had anyone in the intervening centuries equal to this great Indian philosopher in depth of insight, profundity of scholarship, ease of illuminating exposition...
Correspondents have been scouring the Cornell campus this week and have uncovered news items such as the proposed building of a new library which will make Cornell's library system almost equal in size to Harvard's. Other have viewed the Big Red athetic teams to report on the Crimson's prospects for this morning and afternoon...
...might be expected, the South sends virtually no Negroes to schools such as Harvard, although the colored population in many Southern states is very nearly equal to the white. There are multiple reasons for this, not least among them that Negro schools are generally much inferior to white schools...