Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gags on the phrase "higher education," with its undemocratic implication that anybody who doesn't go to a university or four-year college is "forever on a lower plane." To rescue the colleges and universities from the student who enrolls only because of this social blackmail, Conant favors local two-year colleges, such as some states-notably California-have already set up. He would authorize them to grant a new degree of B.G.S. (Bachelor of General Studies)-"not a B.A.," says Conant, "but something that sounds just as near like it as you can come." Then, Conant thinks, only...
...major difficulty," Hermann said, "is that most of the College House chairmen are worried about booking an undergraduate band for undergraduate dances. We are liked and wanted at local girls colleges and at away game football dances, but here, where our interest lies, we are meeting resistance before they have heard...
...Harvardians have beaten the practice room problem through the generosity of the Cambridge Fire Department. Hermann and several of his instrumentalists are honorary members of the department and play with the department band at Sunday morning communion breakfasts and at local city functions...
...passing the thirteenth and fourteenth grades, or the freshman and sophomore college years. But the Commission also noted that only 25 per cent of the population ever gets as far as the fourteenth grade. For the remaining untutored 24 per cent the Commission and President Conant have urged the local two-year college, tailored to the needs of the students and the community...
...could take a chance on a new release called Apartment for Peggy, but the rest of the local fare is pretty meagre, featuring a liberal allotment of Pat O'Brien and his ilk. Of course, there's always the Old Howard...