Word: nigerianism
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...program for selecting and helping African youths to get their education in the United States began in 1960 with 14 Nigerian students and 24 co-operating American institutions, including Harvard. Under the leadership of Henry, former dean of admissions at the University, the number of participating colleges has grown to 213, and the students now come from 24 African countries...
Henry singled out several of the students from Africa who have achieved positions of leadership in their American colleges and universities. Christian Ohiri '64, a Nigerian, holds the Crimson career scoring record in soccer; a freshman from Nigeria was elected to the student senate of the University of Wisconsin; a Tanganyikan student at Geneva College, Pa., is working toward a pilot's license in his "spare time;" an undergraduate from Southern Rhodesia at Tufts University taught a summer college course on contemporary Africa; an ASPAU engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania and an ASPAU girl at Brooklyn School...
...Bose Onabawo, a Nigerian girl whose native language is Yaruba, polished off her first semester in the U.S. by tying for first place in a class of 131 at Brooklyn College of Pharmacy...
Morale should be the key against the weak Tiger booters. With Ohiri out of the front line, the Crimson will be able to test its passing and teamwork, something they tend to forget when feeding the Nigerian star. The threat of a losing season may spark the Cantabrigians to a winning effort, something they became much too accustomed to with last year's championship team...
Where was Chester Bowles when the Cuban crisis broke? At the Nigerian International Trade Fair in Lagos...