Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the university administration, when explaining why they are in favor of the fraternities, can usually be counted upon to begin by reciting figures. The average scholastic standing of frat members they state, is higher than that of the student body as a whole...
...February 11, 1836, the Massachusetts legislature granted a charter for the founding of Mount Holyoke Seminary, thus making the present-day college in South Hadley the oldest institution in the United States for the higher education of women. The leader in the fight to found such an institution was Mary Lyon, who chose the above quotation from the Bible as the motto for the school...
...Mount Holyoke's president, Richard Glenn Gettell, noted, higher education for women has come a long way from "the earlier day of militant feminism. College has no gender today: both sexes can be awfully good students...
...more for silver and gold awards. Since such proficiency cannot be obtained overnight, Arthur Murray has developed the lifetime membership, good for 1,000 hours of lessons, plus two hours monthly free for life. Originally priced around $7,000, life memberships have risen with inflation to $10,000, even higher in some cities. Some 4,100 have bought lifetime memberships. Many have bought up to four, for themselves or to donate to charitable institutions, spend almost all their free time taking Arthur Murray lessons, attending Arthur Murray Saturday-night parties, and even going on "dancers' holidays" to Bermuda, Havana...
...Club selection does illustrate the fact that no nation in history has ever faced the problems the U.S. encounters. Like proconsuls of General Napier's type, U.S. officials are held responsible for the welfare of millions, are expected to attend to their wants and hopes, from plumbing to higher education. But, unlike proconsuls, they have no power to enforce their policies...