Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus-like Governor Marvin Griffin, who backed out at the last minute.) Their historic mission was to try to arrange with the President terms for the withdrawal of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Little Rock. Specifically, they proposed that 1) Faubus make a formal declaration that he would now assume responsibility for law and order in Little Rock and also that he "would not obstruct" federal court orders to integrate Little Rock's Central High School; whereupon 2) the President should turn back the federalized Arkansas National Guard to state control and pull...
...been called into special session by Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury. Confronting France was another U.N. debate on Algeria-likely to end in formal censure of France unless it produced some alternative to bloody repression. Four months ago when he took office as the youngest Premier of the century (and 23rd since the war), Bourgès-Maunoury conceded that "force alone" could not hold Algeria. Force alone would also not satisfy the Socialists and the Catholic M.R.P., whose support his minority government needs to survive. Over violent objections from his own Cabinet, Radical Socialist Bourgès-Maunoury...
...formal grammatical trappings that so often weigh down language instruction have been shorn away at Cornell. The aim is to teach the student a language not by making him analyze it, but by placing him, as far as possible, in an environment dominated by that language so that he may assimilate it almost unconsciously, much as he did with his native language as a child...
...grant is again to be used "to add to the net educational impact of the House in any way the Master sees fit," as the Corporation suggested last year. The masters have been urged not to use the money for House maintenance or for formal academic instruction...
Fashions in Christianity. Each of the six is true to its Christian origins in its fashion, but the fashions vary widely from campus to campus. Methodist Ohio Wesleyan and Presbyterian Wooster still have formal ties to their mother churches, still make chapel attendance compulsory. At Wooster, which annually sends 10% to 15% of its graduates into the ministry, an aide to President Howard F. Lowry explains: "Christianity is not something we just talk about; it's something we live here. You simply do not have a liberal education when you divorce learning from man's deepest inquiry...