Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Obviously, society could not long endure if its institutions of higher learning should array themselves at the side of lawlessness . . . I believe I can count on each of you, both faculty and students, to cooperate in such manner as to make certain that the University of Alabama will be on the side of law and order...
...guest speaker announced that he too would stay home. Then, Professor Morton B. King Jr., chairman of the university's sociology department, resigned from the faculty. The university administration, he charged, is "no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which are essential for higher education to flourish." Two days later, at Mississippi State College, Political Scientist William Buchanan decided to resign too. The state house of representatives denounced the two professors as "misguided reformers," urged the heads of all state-supported colleges to "use every effort to prevent subversive influences from infiltrating into...
...Columbia College, one of eleven campuses that began taking in bright 16-year-olds as freshmen four years ago, told just how its first graduates had done. Of 51 accepted, only eight dropped out, but these did so mostly for emotional reasons. Those who graduated had a 23% higher representation in the top fifth of the class than ordinary students. One out of five became a Phi Beta Kappa...
Economist Slichter ticked off the signs of strength. Though home construction is down, "business plans for outlays on plants and equipment are rising-are 13% more than in 1955." As for manufacturers, unfilled orders totaled $55.5 billion at the end of December, or nearly $4.6 billion higher than July 1955 and up about $9 billion from the comparable period of the year before. New orders are also growing, reached $29.3 billion in December, the highest point since the statistics were first compiled in 1948. At the last official count unfilled orders for all types of machinery stood at $15.6 billion...
Harris continued by maintaining that the inroads the South has made on the textile industry are partially explainable by the difference in labor costs (the higher hourly wage in the North and the lower work loads). However, mergers related to tax advantages and special tax favors in behalf of the South are also important, he added...