Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study. President Truman's Commission on Higher Education, appointed in July, 1946, issued a report--the first of six--on December 15, in which it firmly faces the future of American colleges. Instead of wailing with the pessimists that schools ought to cut down to a timid pre-war level, the Commission strongly recommends that enrollment be doubled...
...jump from $200 to $300 a term will not affect next year's third year students, as tuitions will remain at the present level for those who entered last February or earlier and who will graduate by June 1949 on either regular or the postwar accelerated programs...
Library, instruction, and building costs are 50 percent above the 1940 level, he explained, and endowments, which never covered more than a third of the costs, now account for less than 25 percent...
Quceny is already studying at Trinity College, Dublin. The Globe Fellowship will enable him to work for a Doctorate of Philosophy in Literature, after which he plans to teach on a secondary school level. He was graduated from Thayer Academy and took his pre-war college years at Colgate. His Navy service record includes participation in the Normandy invasion and command of a terpedo boat...
...general, males of the upper levels feel that lower-level morality lacks "ideals" while the lower level feels that the college-level group is artificial and insincere in its sexual behavior-and what is worse, tries to force its patterns on others. Says Kinsey: "Legends about the immorality of the lower level are matched by legends about the perversions of the upper level...