Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most ticklish law-enforcement fact in many a big Northern city is that the crime rate among Negroes is far higher than that of any other segment of the population*-and few elected officials want to antagonize vote-conscious Negroes by saying so. None knew this better than the unhappy city fathers of Kansas City, Mo., who, during the first three weeks of 1957, saw the number of armed robberies, burglaries and thefts run 40% beyond the 1956 rate, while four out of five robbery victims reported that the holdup men were Negroes. One day last fortnight, seven Negro businessmen...
...from St. John's cum laude in 1947, he decided to become an astrophysicist, partly, he now thinks, because he wanted to get out of the shadow of his father and uncle. In graduate school at Columbia he soured on astronomy, took his master's degree in higher mathematics with a thesis on An Introduction to Inversive Geometry. He still regards mathematics as "the most beautiful of all human activities," but dropped it as a career on deciding that his talent for the subject equipped him for nothing more creative than teaching...
...English Literature must be ousted from consciousness if we are to read. In the case of a few hardy souls, formal study can provide a few illuminating tools. But when studying books means answering questions, and when the answers are to be assessed by a man who puts a higher value on a stock response than a capacity to ignore the theories and the critics, then reading is on the way out. Any group of people which believes that we can have any important knowledge about books will rarely produce readers...
...scholarship is a prize award for a senior concentrating in Government who has the highest academic distinction in that subject and who gives "promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship...
...ideally should provide: an evaluation of the extent to which a student has mastered, or failed to master, an area of knowledge. If the grade system, which is now under attack from several quarters, at times does not provide this kind of answer--and who has not sometimes received higher marks in courses for which he was less well prepared?--this is the fault not of the system's theory, but of its practice. More exacting, more factual examinations, and at least one term paper in every non-scientific course, would certainly help eliminate the tendency...