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Dunster House had the highest percentage of men planning immediate entrance into graduate school, the Student Placement Office survey of the Class of 1959 revealed...
...Shrew of Aubrey Schwarz is especially fascinating because it has such strident symbolic power. Schwarz borrows his technique from Durer's enamel engravings, but the daring placement of the shrew, the uncanny emphasis on its very white eye belongs to the modern period. Without losing its descriptive accuracy, The Shrew is designed as a harrowing picture; the animal shown is an image of horrid, unfathomable evil...
Between 100 and 200 Seniors are expected in the Lamont Forum Room tonight for the Student Council's annual Forum on Graduate Study. Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Office of Student Placement, will be on hand along with other officials concerned with scholarships, fellowships and grants for graduate study...
...rabidly segregationist Dollarway district near Pine Bluff (pop. 37,000), where three Negro students applied for immediate entrance to the all-white Dollarway High School. School officials refused, and a U.S. district court ordered the children admitted at once. The Dollarway school board countered by invoking the placement law, assigned the youngsters to a Negro school and appealed the case to the Circuit Court. The Negroes' next move: to prove, if they can, that the school board acted in bad faith...
Many moderate Southerners argue that placement laws like those in Alabama and Arkansas will permit them to proceed with integration on a slow, peaceful basis. Said Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette: "The placement laws do make it possible to control and limit the degree of integration in any school district. This is the pattern that offers the hope of a peaceful resolution of our problems." The trouble, of course, is that they can also be used as an excuse not to integrate...