Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often the case that Harvard must search out such applicants through local alumni clubs and admissions-committee members' visits. Getting the Westerner or Southerner to Harvard is often a matter of recruitment, and any mathematics requirement might make this recruiting very difficult, if not impossible in certain areas...
...math which is suggested, the College might outline a course coverage they think worthwhile. For while three years in some schools might put the student through trig and advanced algebra, in many others it covers only geometry and second year algebra. The College might instruct alumni to speak to local schools, and write schools which have sent students here, advising strongly that the more math an applicant has studied the better will be his chances...
...local chapters of ADA and Campus ADA will also receive copies of the 35-page pamphlet, to be used as a basis for group discussion...
...Various local firms have agreed to contribute construction materials and labor, and the Corporation recently approved the project and use of the land. John W. Teele '27, University Planning coordinator is supervising details...
Over the weekend, students began fashioning black felt armbands with "14-Mars" inscribed on them in chalk, and plans were supposedly laid for a mass surrender to the New Haven police and for a march on a local precinct station. Another student plot hoped to have the entire undergraduate body flush all the toilets at Yale simultaneously in hopes of flooding New Haven streets. However, the Deans probation decree appears to have silenced any such mass action