Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group urged that the Government play on students' self-interest to accomplish reform by distributing fellowships "directly to students on the basis of intellectual and creative promise," rather than channeling them through professions or schools. That would enable the students to "vote with their feet" for programs of proven excellence and presumably for fields where the most jobs are available...
...sprint and hurdles are the weakest part of the team," McCurdy said yesterday. "Baylee Reid is the only proven runner, but there is plenty of potential," he said...
...coach's optimism is based on an exceptionally strong contingent in the field events and an experienced group of middle distance runners. The major weakness on the team so far is a lack of proven sprinters and hurdlers...
...think the real scandal of the present affirmative action guidelines is that the universities of this country have been treated as if they were Southern rural conties. Figures alone have been used to assume discrimination, conscious and unconscious, and universities have been presumed guilty until proven innocent. And innocence has been determined by the willingness to accept goals which in effect are quotas. No university administration has been willing to fight this--they are too dependent on Federal funds and the power is too unequal. But as we see the notion of goals and targets spread far beyond the areas...
Both Steele, whom Carter feels has proven himself to be the best skier in the East at his best, and his flashy mentor qualified for a crack at world caliber competition Western Spring series which is a string of 8 races in 15 days roughly coinciding with spring break at such racers' nirvanas as Squaw Valley, Mammoth Mountain and Heavenly Valley...