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...Second-Class Honor...
There is still considerable debate in the Faculty about the new policy of allowing students to drop their theses anytime in their senior year and still get CLGS. "Many people feel," Monro said, "that this cheapens the CLGS degree and makes it a second-class honor...
...professional dedication. In many cases, the spur has been provided by new postal rates that discriminate against junk mail-the classification that fits free-delivery newspapers. By claiming paid circulation, the giveaways that do not depend solely on carrier-boy delivery can escape into the less confiscatory rate for second-class mail. This takes some doing: the Post Office requires that such a paper sell 65% of its copies and devote 25% of space to editorial matter at least half the time...
Perhaps the most important feature of this new book was its attack on Booker T. Washington, who was the Negro leader of that time. Washington maintained that the Negro should accept second-class citizenship in return for the assurance that whites would give the Negroes industrial training and jobs. DuBois became part of the Negro outcry against this compromising policy. "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights," he wrote. "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free-born American: political, civil and social; and until...
...make a nation truly sovereign, simply will not die down. And sooner or later the Germans are bound to take it up, for the most powerful country in Europe, with a technical capacity probably greater than France's, cannot indefinitely be kept in the position of a second-class citizen without the nuclear rights its allies and neighbors possess...