Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treacherous history. In the 1840s the fashion for men's beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man. In the 1950s beaver has been slipping from favor in women's coats. "Ladies," says Maine trapper Jasper Haynes, "just aren't wearing beaver coats...
...question of PR, which was placed on the ballot and publicized by the Sullivan forces largely to draw attention from the first referendum, the vote was 18,000 to 13,000 in favor of retaining this system of balloting...
...urges the U.S. Government to give universities much more money for basic research, and to help state governments in their own educational and research programs. It also suggests that the income-tax laws be changed to favor non-profit research institutes and to encourage gifts for basic research from both corporate and individual taxpayers...
There is some merit in all these arguments in favor of the present trend, but basically the arguments are fallacious. They are based upon misconceptions about preparatory schools, Harvard's reputation, and the nation's financial condition. Although some preparatory schools have scholarship programs, the student who goes into an exclusive New England prep school is quite different from the one who leaves it. There also seems to be the assumption that everybody would like to go to a preparatory school and that everyone wants to go to Harvard. There are several million public school students in this nation, most...
...most legitimate argument in favor of more preparatory school students at Harvard is that these students are better prepared than graduates of this nation's public school system. Except for a few exceptional public schools, the better private schools produce students that can run academic circles around the "diamond in the rough" from a small town in New Jersey. It is true that in the first year at Harvard the prep school graduate does better work with less effort than someone from a public school. After the first year, however, the public school student usually does more work and gets...