Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECOND route, the scholarship route, is a new one. Congress is in direct control of funds that go to universities this way. Debates on education bills are usually lengthy and appropriations extend over three or four years. The Office of Education administers programs under these general education bills. In 1968, the agency was authorized to distribute $4714 million under the extended 1963 Facilities Act, $397 million under NDEA, and $427 million under the 1965 Higher Education Act extended...
...second version was placed in an appropriation act for the Departments of Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and also in the Defense Department appropriation bill. It denies assistance to students who are convicted of crimes involving "the use of force, trespass or the seizure of property under control of an institution of higher education..." The third version was attached to the Higher Education Amendments of 1968 and applies to the extensions of NDEA and the Higher Education...
...federal funds to universities is rapidly increasing. In 1962, scholarship and miscellaneous federal support accounted for only 5 per cent of total federal funds to universities. Today, it is over one-third. Recent plans for more federal aid, such as the Carnegie Commission proposals, would involve Congress further. Second, there is no doubt that public pressure for some kind of an end to university disorders is increasing. Americans want their problems over right away, and they still believe that getting tough can accomplish anything (Eric Hoffer said so in his congressional testimony...
...yard run saw another Yale victory in a traditionally strong Crimson even as the Eli's Steve Bitner edged Harvard's Keith Colburn by fourth-tenths of a second...
Most of the girls are waiting for their own questions to be answered. Graham prefers to meet with a group at least twice, and there are invariably fewer girls the second time...