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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Virginia's "massive resistance" program, Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. last week ordered Norfolk's six high schools closed to keep 17 Negro children out of white classrooms. That brought the state's padlocked-schools total to nine (one in Front Royal, two in Almond's native town of Charlottesville). But it was a lot easier to close schools than to get them opened again without any integration. Eager as he was to find gimmicks of delay, Lawyer Almond frankly admitted that he considered a Faubus-type school-leasing plan too obviously illegal...
Charles Weiss, Jr. '59, Secretary of the HLU, suggested yesterday that the undergraduate political organizations co-operate to send representatives to the NSA, if the Student Council were not interested in sending delegates. He said that, although the NSA is "far from satisfactory in its present form," an active Harvard delegation could change this...
Several members of both freshman and varsity teams have volunteered to go to Cornell on their own. Coach William McCurdy Jr. revealed. Five varsity runners and three freshman harriers will drive to Cornell on Saturday and join the other squad members there...
...century B.C. The price of the scroll, slightly more than $5,000, was paid by a prominent mining tycoon with a hankering for archaeology and a strong dislike of publicity. In the course of two lectures at All Souls last spring, Dr. Frank M. Cross Jr., Harvard's Hancock professor of Semitic languages and a leading member of the international team of scroll scholars that has been purchasing, patching and puzzling out the secrets of the scrolls since the Bedouins, first began to bring them in (TIME, April 15, 1957), told his audience that there were still fragments...
...American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the Ford Foundation and the Fund for the Advancement of Education, partly financed by American Telephone and Telegraph Co., International Business Machines Corp., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and U.S. Steel, the physics course will feature topnotch scientists (first: Dr. James R. Killian Jr.. the President's special assistant for science and technology) as guest speakers, but its main lecturer will be Dr. Harvey E. White, University of California professor of physics. The first semester, "devoted to those aspects of physics necessary to an understanding of atomic and nuclear physics," will deal...