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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone knows that Radcliffe isn't really co-educational. This regrettably mistaken young lady, like so many people fresh to the Cambridge scene, was fooled by an amorphous concept called Joint Instruction...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: After Seven Years Together Harvard, Annex Hold Hands | 10/13/1950 | See Source »

Despite this, Radcliffe isn't really co-educational. It's Joint Instruction. To understand Joint Instruction, one must go back, back to a day in 1878 when President Eliot walked into his office and found a letter lying on his desk. "Dear Sir," it said. "I am engaged in perfecting a plan which shall afford women opportunities for carrying their studies forward further than it is possible for them to do in this country (except possibly at Smith) . . ." The letter was signed by one Arthur Gilman, a Cambridge historian...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: After Seven Years Together Harvard, Annex Hold Hands | 10/13/1950 | See Source »

...York City isn't much of a college town. Real estate is high and like everything else in the city, college buildings grow up. Only in New York probably, does a college dormitory look like an office building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Has New York and Eisenhowr . . . Lacks Spirit and Ivy League Atmosphere | 10/7/1950 | See Source »

...what is wrong with . . . the organization of a committee against Cornmunism? The inconsistency of condemning Stalin's actions and yet sympathizing with his friends and agents in this country . . . makes one wonder if there isn't a little pink mixed in with your printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...calling Russia's peace campaign, phony [TIME, Sept.11], since it isn't. Russia sincerely wants to gobble up her neighbors peacefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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