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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably wise for a Negro not to ask for dormitory accommodations as Miss Lucy did. The more intimate the relations with Negroes, the less palatable they are to white Southerners. For a while, it is better for Negro leaders to be content with a little so that they may gain a lot. In Miss Lucy's case, they wanted everything, and lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Moderation' Fails at U. of Alabama | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

...National Association for the Protection of White People and Fair Treatment of Negroes was chartered by a Florida circuit court, with former Governor Fuller Warren as its attorney. The association will try to gain support for a constitutional amendment which would give the states power to make their own policy on mixed schools and mixed marriages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...DeVere P. Armstrong, new professor of Military Science and Tactics, announced yesterday a gain in initial enrollment in the Army detachment of 22, from 68 to approximately 90 students. Except during the Korean War, this is the highest enrollment the unit has received since World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC's Entrants Indicate Greatest Gain Since 1952 | 9/29/1956 | See Source »

...game--to avoid the defeat handed it by UMass, 13-7, two years ago. But with so many schools of Harvard's size to play, it seems foolish for the Crimson to persist in playing games with teams that "have nothing to lose and everything to gain...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 9/27/1956 | See Source »

...twofold. On the official level he went to visit certain universities in the Far East which the Harvard-Yenching Institute helps to support--altogether the Institute supports research and publications in about ten universities in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong--and on a more personal level he went to gain a first-hand familiarity with recent developments in the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reischauer Optimistic About Japan After Spending Year in Far East | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

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