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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leland stated that he had heard nothing of the petition but that the amendment was designed to increase the effect of student pressure on the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Amendments Pass In Council Referendum | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

Harvard's voice has been heard in the only forum representing American students to the nation and the world. It is unfortunate that the Student Council has now chosen to withdraw into Ivy League isolationism. Paul E. Sigmund Jr. Teaching Fellow in Government International Vice-President, USNSA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IVY LEAGUE ISOLATIONISM | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

...America and Americans existing among the younger generation. What direct contacts they had made in missions, schools, and hospitals convinced them that Americans were more informal and easier to converse with than the British, possessing none of the latter's attitude of condescension towards African culture. What they had heard through rumor, newspaper, radio, and the movies convinced them that the U.S. was a place of fabulous wealth, great opportunity, leisure, and few conflicts...

Author: By David Abernethy, | Title: Students in Nigeria - The New Elite | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

...second group of questions dealt with racial discrimination in the U. S., the one feature of life here which came in for continual criticism. "We have heard about this Little Rock city; could you please tell us why the Negroes are being treated badly...

Author: By David Abernethy, | Title: Students in Nigeria - The New Elite | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

Work habits are further affected. Students in Nigeria work a good deal harder than do young Americans, largely out of fear that their government scholarships will be withdrawn if they do not. In many a secondary school, for example, we heard that the boys would study Saturday night rather than spend the evening socializing. UCI students told of night-long cram sessions extending for several days, before they took their equivalent of the College Boards. And these sessions are standard procedure prior to any UCI exam. Failing a course may mean expulsion if a re-exam is not quickly passed...

Author: By David Abernethy, | Title: Students in Nigeria - The New Elite | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

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