Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern American education received a stern talking-to in the New York Times Magazine yesterday from Henry Steele Commager, professor of history at Columbia University. Commager, comparing the American system to the European, called for "more rather than less intellectual content, higher rather than lower standards...
...Dean Bundy occupied himself with the future. Knowingly, he predicted a tuition rise last October. Lo and behold, in January the prediction came true, as tuition rose to $1000 for next year. We congratulated Dean Bundy for his oracular powers, and suggested that perhaps tuition should have risen even higher--simultaneously, of course, with scholarship...
Since Stalin's death, Brzezinski says in his "The Permanent Purge" published today by the University Press, purges have hit the higher-ups of the Party rather than the mass membership. He believes conflicts have been confined largely to the upper strata of the Communist hierarchy...
...president and his Council of Economic Advisers, while exulting that the economy has "broken through to new and higher ground," cautioned that prosperity would continue only if proper restraints are employed...
...Boston Club now gives $13,000 in aid to 15 or 16 persons which would mean a drive to raise an additional $3000. Mittell also felt that although there would be no cut in the number of applicants because the tuition will be no higher than that of Yale or Princeton, more applicants would request help...