Word: lasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is basically melodrama, but contains the seeds of something more complex. Dustin Hoffman plays David Sumner, an American mathematician who marries a stunning Cornwall lass (Susan George) and moves back to a farm in her hometown. It's primitive, this Cornwall; all the girls seem to have married out, and the only workers we see are farmhands and local craftsmen--aside from the minister, the sheriff, and the bartender...
...years the Office of Education has provided 80 per cent of the funds and the Graduate School of Education the remaining 20 per cent. "We began to get signals from Washington that we needed signs of support from the University in order to get Federal funds next year," Barbara Lass, executive director of the Upward Bound program, said...
...question because it has admitted only one student from its own program, and because Upward Bound here is associated with a graduate school rather than with the University as a whole. "It has not been in line with the Federal idea of how the program should operate," Lass said...
Funding through the central administration "speaks to one of the problems," Lass said. "But it doesn't speak to all of them. There is the question of undergraduate admissions, for example...
...hope that this will give a fairer picture of Upward Bound. I would also hope that former Upward Bound students and staff from other programs would take a minute to come by and visit us at 3 Garden Street. Barbara Lass Executive Director