Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strijdom Government, in determination to erase the last traces of racial mixing, is about to end the "open" status of these universities. Dr. T. B. Davie, Principal of the University of Capetown, described Strijdom's aim as trying "to establish and perpetuate an inferior status in the African in relation to the European." All evidence seems to corroborate this charge...
...white colleges more than triples that for the Africans. Moreover, the curricula imposed on the "African" schools prohibits blacks from being admitted to European (Continental) universities. The policy of rigid educational segregation does not merely separate cultures; it serves to keep the African blacks socially, academically, and economically inferior. To insure white supremacy, Strijdom is determined to make it impossible for blacks to improve their status...
...truth, the College is stuck with seven Houses which it cannot affort to support. They are too luxurious to meet the demands of undergraduates. But the current method of reducing their cost-crowding leads to inferior education as well as discomfort. The new Houses will meet educational requirements by having private studies but eliminate the Common Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice...
...army." There is a Union soldier in besieged Chattanooga reflecting that the antagonisms between eastern and western Federal troops often seemed greater than those that separated North and South. And there is Union General George McClellan in the grip of his "numbers" madness, unwilling to attack the inferior forces of Lee because of his persistent conviction that he was faced by hundreds of thousands of non-existent Rebels...
...believe that America would be able to find the 500,000 competent teachers who will be needed in the coming decade and that as a result of this, many colleges would have to be satisfied with inferior products while the few so-called "big name" colleges would attract the good...