Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country was settled primarily by Jewish immigrants from Europe, but recent immigration has come increasingly from Morocco and Oriental countries with social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds substantially different from the highly-developed and professionalized Jewish communities of Europe. According to Eisenstadt, these Moroccan and Oriental Jews constitute 50 per cent of the Jewish population of Israel (depending on how the children are counted...
...immigrants. "The second generation is less segregated, and hopefully the third will be even less," Eisenstadt said, and there has been a slow but continuous increase in the rate of intermarriage between the two groups. Higher education is also a problem; Eisenstadt believes that not more than 10 per cent of university students are Oriental or Moroccan, but the army has instituted a new program where, after their period of service, immigrants who are qualified but "not quite prepared" for a university are given a pre-university training course. "This is the second or third year of the program...
Lowell House students will deliver letters to the Administration tomorrow asking that the demonstrators not be severed. Mark D. Wasserstrom '70, one of the organizers of the letter writing campaign, said that from 30 to 50 per cent of the students are writing letters...
Harvard had asked NSF to increase immediately its $5.4 million allotment by about $440,000, so that the University could maintain "a liveable level of project research." Harvard had received $5.7 million from NSF in 1968, and had anticipated a 14 per cent increase--instead of the 18 per cent decrease--this year...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences receives about 80 per cent of the NSF funds given to Harvard. The Medical School gets about 10 per cent, with the remainder divided among the Business School, the Ed School, and the School of Public Health...