Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brighter side, department-store sales last week moved 2% ahead of the same week of 1957. The National Retail Merchants Association polled the top men in 2,000 department and chain stores, reported that 72% look for 1958 profits to equal or exceed last year's record. The Commerce Department, in its annual survey of the nation's major industries, found "moderate optimism." Though it conceded that production declines are in store for autos, steel, machine tools and railway cars, it predicted that some of 1957's softer industries will snap back. Said the report: lumbermen should...
...Pusey stresses the need for "equal diligence" toward the social sciences and the humanities. Denying that "the present emergency presents us with an either/or choice," he claims that "these disciplines are no less important than the natural sciences to national security and welfare...
Arguing that typed exams would considerably reduce their work load, and at the same time put all students on an equal competitive level, almost every tutor reached in a random check strongly favored the use of typewriters...
...pointed out that February degree candidates would be the most eligible, although students who wished to take a year's leave of absence would be given equal consideration. Watson said that students would not be given credit for spring term work prior to the April opening of the Exhibition, nor would they be allowed to register after its closing in October...
...life, the admissions committee seeks a cultural cross-section which will enrich the University. Thus the great cry for diversity. In order to fulfill this ideal, the office must choose a greater percentage of those who apply from minority groups than from the more homogeneous mass, other factors being equal. This quest for diversity is hampered when means of recognizing differences are abolished. The Indian or Negro would find his chances better, if a picture broadcasts his distinction, than if left to the law of averages. Harvard as a whole benefits from this sort of favoritism...