Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half, Harvard's defense choked off the running of Bill McGill, who picked up 108 yards on the ground in place of the injured Bruce Molloy, and the short passing of quarterback Pete Wisniewski. But despite threat after threat on the Quaker goal line, the Crimson could manage only a game-saving field goal...
...traditional schools-Leacock's own McGill University in Montreal, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
...serene bounds. The University of Montreal's 14,000 on-campus students will soon ride two new escalators tunneled through granite to reach their campus on Mount Royal, 200 feet above the street, where 23 new buildings are built or planned in a five-year $50 million program. McGill is spending $42 million on new plant in a drive for quality, but hopes to hold its enrollment...
...atypical. Although the Southern press is no longer monolithic, the vast majority of Southern newspapers are owned by old white families whose histories and interests are woven tightly into the social and political fabric of segregation. The exceptions are few, though striking. Through years of tireless prodding, Ralph McGill has converted the Atlanta Constitution into a respected voice of accuracy and reason. Likewise, Hodding Carter and his sons have made the Greenville Delta-Democrat-Times the only reliable daily in Mississippi. But, outside Atlanta and Greenville, the picture is very bleak. The Northern newspapers rarely penetrate below Raleigh, and many...
...community. Worried about economic injury from bad publicity, power structures in many cities have pressured papers to tone down their diatribes. "Most of the newspapers have only been a weathervane, not a guide," remarks one Alabama editor. "There is no evidence of a crisis of conscience," says McGill. "The Civil Rights Act did many newspapers a great favor. The diehards can now bow out gracefully by saying...