Word: grads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommended to many students that they wait a year before deciding whether to enter a graduate school. The drop in the average are of draftees--a result of President Kennedy's order exempting married men from the draft--means that graduating seniors will have to chose immediately between grad school and the Army...
...spokesman for national Selective Service headquarters in Washington said yesterday that the Army would not defer a student who takes a year off between college and graduate school, even if he has been accepted by a grad school. "They're on their own after they leave college, and they run a good chance of being drafted," he said...
...bunch of alums were whooping it up in a highway-side saloon, toasting Stanford's football victory over Cal, when a young old grad called for the Stanford hymn. "How does it go?" someone asked. "From the ... something . . . something ..." a voice began. "Foothills? Mountains?" someone suggested. Others dimly recalled "in the sunset fire" and "raise our voices singing," until at length a young wife bravely quavered...
...competent men can operate today's military machine, and the military is finding it more difficult to recruit such men and to keep those it has. An Army major with 15 years experience who oversees a research laboratory receives about the same pay as a fresh out of grad school research scientist employed by private industry. An Air Force jet engine mechanic with four years' service earns three hundreds dollars a month; his counterpart an American Airlines makes twice the amount...
Girls at M.I.T. go back to 1871, when an uppity Vassar grad applied to study chemistry. The faculty let her in, but carefully kept her name (Ellen Swallow) off the rolls. She wound up on the faculty, and in 1883 the whole place went coed-turning out such alumnae as Battleship Designer Lydia G. Weld ('02) and City Planner Elisabeth Coit ('18). More than half of Tech's living alumnae work fulltime as artists, aerodynamicists, doctors, ministers, missile developers and math professors. Still, the total number is small-only 572 women hold M.I.T. degrees...