Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether Treasurer Kennedy would resubmit his brother's name, or whether the Governor's Council would reconsider it if he did, or ; whether Councilor Wells would remember his boast: "I would get out of the council if I couldn't pass an intelligence test with a higher mark than James...
Treasurer Kennedy exploded; his brother could whip the whole council at an intelligence test. Said John F. (for Francis) Kennedy: "James is more intelligent than any member of the council. If he doesn't get a higher mark than any of them I will withdraw his name...
...instrument when used to correct academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front of their houses every night--an act that the University has, in practice, permitted for years--probation is degraded to a position slightly higher than a reprimand for jay-walking...
...belongs to Dunster House and the class of 1957. When he returns to his home and the Free University of Berlin next year, however, he will be eligible for a Master's Degree in Economics. This incongruance in status exemplifies the contrast Gunter has found between U.S. and German higher education. In agreement with many previous observers, Gunter summarizes these difference through the aims of the two systems; individual scholarship in the German University; citizenship in the American college...
What sort of program should U.S. higher education offer to the adult who has finally decided to go after the liberal arts degree he missed in his youth? After five months of experimenting, New York City's Brooklyn College believes that it has a sound suggestion...