Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms which hot-headed Negro leaders had rejected four weeks before, was as simple and satisfactory as the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland; i.e., everybody won. The government-subsidized bus company, which started the trouble by upping its fare from fourpence to fivepence, would go on collecting the higher fare. The thousands of Negro bus riders, commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care of by a special fund raised...
However much they may differ, such programs indicate serious doubts about U.S. higher education. As practiced now. says Assistant Dean John C. Esty Jr. of Amherst, "most education is a hoax. You just don't get it by placing students in juxtaposition to books and professors for four years." The hoped-for symbol of education at its best, says Dean of the College Robert Streeter of the University of Chicago, is "the student alone with his books...
Founded in 1948 by the Southern governors, the S.R.E.B. has been a major boon to higher education in Dixie. But the man most responsible for its success is its softspoken, diplomatic Director John Eli Ivey Jr. When the governors found him, Sociologist Ivey was only 28-the youngest full professor at the University of North Carolina. His mission with the S.R.E.B.: to fill the gaps in Southern higher education by getting states and campuses to share each other's facilities...
...oppose the anxious attempts of "righteous moralists" to undercut Harvard's responsibility for providing the opportunity and the risk proper to higher education...
...troubles in proposing to his girl. She, it appears, would rather talk into the phone than to him. Peggy Lapsley sings the role of the communicative young lady and Bruce MacDonald comes onstage to play the man. Though Miss Lapsley has a little difficulty in negotiating some of the higher notes, both, on the whole, are more than acceptable...