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...those states in the Middle West where the scholarship plan is operative, the idea of education at Harvard has not taken on a more democratic hue. In the average mind, it is still limited to graduates of the suburban high schools who can afford the price. The simple expedient of sending representatives of the college to all secondary schools in an area, and not solely to those of the usual array of collected prep and suburban schools, would be the shot in the arm necessary to spread the notion of Harvard scholarships to a greater cross-section. A closer cultivation...
Necessary Effort. The French garrison mopped up most of Hanoi and fought off heavy counterattacks, but found it hard to get out except by air. Other garrisons in Tonkin were besieged. The rebels shelled Haiphong on Tonkin's coast, and Hue on Annam's coast. The French fought with planes and tanks; the rebels answered with mines, boobytraps, snipers and ambushes. The rebels claimed that Germans in the French Foreign Legion were deserting; the French answered that Japs in the Vietnamese army were committing harakiri...
...disclose information on its stockpile of A-bombs and fissionable material as soon as the contemplated commission could be set up. All this seemed to fly right over Senator Connally's head, for the orotund Texan made no relevant comment. Next day, however, there was a great hue...
Union reading tastes are also tainted with a sexual flavor and pink hue, as may be noted from monthly sellouts of Esquire and The Nation. Apparently contrary to the liberal arts trend shown in University course popularity figures, this scientific age of wonders retains a strong grip on the technically-minded Yardlings who avidly devour all procurable copies of Amazing Science when it makes its monthly appearance...
Thus in 1700 AD the citizens of New Haven, tired of contributing to the support of an institution of decided Crimson hue in far-off Cambridge since the year 1644, decided to "educate ministers in their own way," and ten clergymen, Harvard graduates all, convened to do the job. Not until 18 years later, however, in 1718 when a certain Governor of the British East India Company saw fit to contribute his fortune to the Arts and Sciences, did the embryo college become financially secure, and in gratitude they immortalized the name of Elihu Yale...