Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crow Texas Citizens Council an injunction to bar state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis...
...Masters, who often spend their football weekends closed off from the student portion of the House, may still have some doubts about the residents' fledgling attempts at adult entertainment. To allay these fears, House members might invite their Master and his wife to attend their room parties on the football weekends ahead. After observing students with their charming dates at close range, the Masters must surely mellow and decide at their next meeting to advance the entertainment deadline on football Saturdays--on a trial basis at least...
...office, organized a glee club for freshmen, we gave it our full support. This organization is being continued this year with the full sponsorship of the Harvard Glee Club. It will be able to accommodate most freshmen who have tried out, and thus will take care of a significant portion of the 317 men quoted in the editorial as competing for the limited vacancies in the Harvard Glee Club...
This is the first time an American college crew has returned in toto to compete in the elimination races. The 1920 Annapolis crew--known as the Navy admirals--which won the Olympic Gold Medal that year attempted the feat in 1924 but only a portion of the eight oarsmen were available for competition. It was eventually beaten out in the trials for the honor of representing the United States...
...review of the revised Army ROTC program, however, will show that, with this single exception, the Army is allowing the Department of Military Science and Tactics to introduce the fundamental modification which we requested, and at the same time to accomplish a substantial portion of the other important subsidiary change which we desired...