Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court indicated yesterday that last week's ruling against segregation in public secondary schools would extend into the field of higher education...
Reports from other segments of the economy indicated that a traffic jam was building up on the road back. Items: ¶ Sales in 44 chain stores and mail-order houses in April reversed an eight-month slide, pushed 4.4% higher than a year ago. ¶The stock market hit another new high; Dow-Jones industrials rose 1.20, to 322.50. ¶The bond market was booming. Connecticut's first $100 million bond issue for its $398 million toll expressway was snapped up by 250 investment bankers. The Treasury Department offered $2.2 billion in 4¼-year notes, got so many...
...with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 65, of Dallas, who got his start running one of the tables in an Arkansas gambling house, is probably rivaled only by Sid Richardson for the title of richest man in the U.S. Richardson figures that Hunt's production is higher, but that his own oil reserves are bigger (estimated at as high as 750 million bbls.). Hunt, a lone wolf who hardly knows the new Athenians, uses his oil wealth to spread his far-right views through such media as radio & TV's Facts Forum. He lives in a Texas...
Bard is not a failure. Financially, its foundations are being shaken, but as an experiment in progressive higher education it has been overwhelmingly successful. It has proved that, as the spirit of American education, the passive attitude toward the routine learning so well known at many of the large universities will never replace the active participation and interest which each student maintain in his own education at Bard and at other small colleges of its type...
...true, however, that there is a tragedy about Bard--one which its present students, faculty and administration are well aware of. The trend in American higher learning has certainly drifted from freedom to conformity in thought and action. Not only is Bard sorely in need of financial assistance, but it needs the assurance of the academic, professional and business worlds that a Bard graduate will not be handicapped by his "uncommon" education. . . . . Wendy Gluck, Brandels University