Word: origin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago Massachusetts passed a Fair Educational Practices Act to force schools to admit without regard to race, color, religion, creed, or national origin. Harvard, M.I.T., Williams, and Andover led the unsuccessful opposition...
...blanks of candidates for admission today, the College asks the students to "omit mention of anything which would indicate your race, creed, color, or national origin." The admissions office may not keep in its files anything which would indicate this information when the applications are being acted upon. Letters of recommendation are returned if they give this data...
Another useful ploy for the patient "consists of playing on Doctor's fear of seeming [to claim] medical qualifications which he does not in fact possess." Suppose, for example, the doctor suggests that some ailment may be psychological in origin. "Oh, Doctor," the patient may reply, "I had no idea that was one of your subjects. I've always wanted a good psychotherapist." Follow up the advantage promptly, urges Potter: "Refuse to take in the doctor's worried assurance that he is not a trained psychiatrist. Make it appear that you are going to tell your friends...
Judge Armstrong had tried to give his money away before. Two years ago, Mississippi's Jefferson Military College turned him down because he wanted the college to exclude students of "African and Asiatic origin" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949). For Piedmont, there were no such strings, and President Walter saw nothing wrong with accepting $500 a month to help him balance his budget...
Tuesday night's fire in Cleverly Hall was called the work of an arsonist by Cambridge Police and Fire Department officials yesterday. Although the cause of the blaze is still of "undetermined origin," investigators revealed that they had several suspects in mind and are now seeking to link the recent blaze to Saturday night's $65,000 conflagration...