Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good, winter, and a banner spring. 1957-58 will probably be remembered as the year of the Yale football game, but it was more than that. It was the year that Harvard had the best basketball, baseball, tennis, and lightweight crew teams in a long time. All one can hope for now is that John Yovicsin will be able to develop some kind of pass defense by next November
...short-term hope for avoiding a damaging fight is the possibility that the state legislature will convene by September, vote a local-option plan for integration. Arlington County school-board members, polled privately, have said they would vote to integrate if an option plan allowed them to do so. But the legislature would have to be called by Segregationist Almond, who last week said: "We have state laws which we believe to be intact, and they will be applied in an honest effort to save public education from chaos...
Tuition costs have worked out at about 50? a lesson for each student. The parents do not feel they are rebelling against the school system. Instead, they recognize the limits of their project, hope that the public schools will eventually take over the after-school classes...
...finished in July 1961; the Theater of the Dance by July 1963. Says Center President Rockefeller: "It is proper that Lincoln Center should represent the best of American architecture, for we are building not for today or tomorrow, but for 100 years. We hope Lincoln Center will stand, in the eyes of the world, as a symbol of our national regard for the arts, and our recognition of their importance in the lives of the American people...
...ecumenical movement toward unity among the Protestant denominations, added Theologian Weigel. "is vital and effective, one of the best efforts the Protestant churches have ever made. The hope of a united church necessarily makes the Protestant look at Catholicism and look at it more sympathetically than he did in the past." The Protestants, he said, are also growing more and more interested in liturgy, increasingly using candles, the cross, vestments, stained glass, "and even statues." Catholic rites are no longer despised as "popish idolatry." and Protestants often visit Catholic churches "to see how the liturgy is to be performed...