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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second story on Princeton, the Trib hit Rhodes Scholars for "influencing public opinion on Britain's behalf." Founder Cecil Rhodes "plotted the idea of a secret society to extend British rule to recapture America for the king...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irascible Trib Lowers Boom On Langer's History of War | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

...from her ivory hower in the Garden Street Eden, Mona N. Lowe '50 peered out from behind her tortoise-shell spectacles and waggled a slide rule provocatively at the CRIMSON reporter. "Men, men all over the place. Men by the dozen, hounding me for my reading notes. I never had so damn much fun in may life," she shrieked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Digs Out As Scholars Plow Through Exams | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

Four days later, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson drawled out the court's unanimous decision, which seemed to go further than the Gaines rule. Said Vinson: "[Ada Sipuel] is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution. [Oklahoma] must provide it for her . . . and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group." Ada took a train for home, to be ready when Oklahoma's new term begins next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ada's Day in Court | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...tutoring schools have been out of existence for so many years that the true native of their invidiousness may by now have been forgotten. The Administration may be content to point to the rule against their use and take no action until a stroke of chance unveils some student who has been taking the "easy way out." If this attitude is adopted, the tutoring school may make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Market in Education | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

Peck's fleeting resemblance to Gary Cooper was undoubtedly helpful, at the start. Neither moviemakers nor moviegoers take quickly, as a rule, to a wholly unprecedented face. But it was soon clear also that Peck was no carbon copy, but a distinct and engaging new personality. He has a face which Mary Morris of PM has aptly described as "early American." It can, of course, be dangerous to look enough like Abraham Lincoln to suffer by comparison or to seem to be plagiarizing. At certain unfortunate moments Peck looks merely like a pretty Lincoln; but he never looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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