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Perhaps, as you say, the origin of the yellow ribbon as a symbol of longing for a captive's return is lost in the mists of folklore [Feb. 9]. The story my grandmother always told me, however, was that young ladies wore yellow ribbons around their necks to show that they were "spoken for" by a member of the U.S. Cavalry. The golden ribbon was a feminine version of the yellow stripe on the troopers' trousers...
...think that the discussion about the origin of the affirmative expression O.K. is getting out of hand. Still, I have to disagree with Readers Franklin Courtney Ellis [Jan. 19] and Andrea Galvacs...
...letter to Howard Swearer, the president of Brown, the OCR stated that the financial aid program complies with the Civil Rights Act of 1964--which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin--and the Educational Amendments of 1972, which forbids discrimination...
...York City trip was also the origin of "Mother Superior and the Sisters," where the hoopsters were bedded in long, cloister-like rooms in the attic of the Harvard Club and afterwards claimed that they knew what it felt like to be nuns...
Whatever the origin of mathematical ability, it seems clear that males go on to do better than females in math. Stanley followed a sample of the girls who performed well in his original talent searches and found that, for the most part, they did not maintain interest in the subject. The female sample which took the SATs in 1972, now in college, appeared to be experiencing as much difficulty in math courses as a random sample of women in college...