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...Fifteen Given Sophomore Standing...
During the same period, fifteen students were given sophomore standing without previous college work, including thirteen students from foreign schools. The report pointed out that the University has long accepted credentials from accelerated foreign schools for sophomore standing, but that the plan has not until recently been extended to American schools...
...House would primarily be used to draw off some of the overcrowding on the present Houses, but he did not eliminate the possibility that it, and the two others which are also included in the Program, would also absorb the apparently inevitable College expansion, which he estimated at fifteen to twenty per cent in the next decade. The Program also calls for two new freshman dormitories...
...squeeze between wages and prices, and pre-tax profits for Class I roads dropped 68% to $700 million. Since then, largely because of their race to modernize, the roads have stepped up earnings, last year wound up with a $1 billion profit. Says Southern Railway President Harry de Butts: "Fifteen years ago, when trucking grew up and undercut us, nothing was said. But now we are ready to fight back...
...downright meanness. Around the ages of sixteen and seventeen some of the boys become so tough and anti-social that their acts become increasingly brutal. A good example occurred a few years ago when one local tough stood on a street corner flipping a coin in the air for fifteen minutes. He then let it drop to the sidewalk. Another boy standing nearby bent over to pick it up for him, and promptly received a kick in the face from the flipper. "That guy was real mean," a local gang leader reminisced later. "He was sort of insane. Playing football...