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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GROUP. Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller about Vassar's class of '33 retains its period flavor in this movie version by Director Sidney Lumet, with eight captivating young actresses as the grads going forth to seek fulfillment of one kind or another during the Roosevelt...
...thousands, Negroes exercising their rights nonetheless seek to remove their cases from state to federal courts. Federal judges no longer send these cases back to state courts so readily as they used to; the 1964 Civil Rights Act permits remand orders to be appealed. Negroes still face a major hurdle: Southern federal district judges. Many are scrupulously fair, notably Alabama's Frank Johnson, an Eisenhower appointee, and Florida's Bryan Simpson, a Truman appointee. But others are deeply segregationist, a problem largely attributable to the Kennedy Administration, which surprisingly named such men as Mississippi's William...
Institutional Prestige. So far, the pressures have been greatest at the top graduate schools-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, California at Berkeley, M.I.T. and Caltech. "Students too often seem to seek out institutional prestige instead of departmental prestige," comments Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, who contends that there are "pockets of inadequately used graduate capacity" at many good schools. Out of 5,246 applicants last fall, Harvard took only 1,853. Yale's Law School got 2,000 applications for 165 openings. Michigan's graduate office mailed out 20,000 applications, got 12,000 back, accepted half, enrolled...
...Smith brings the bluff off past June, the British should seek a mandate from the UN to escalate the sanctions. One possible means would be to extend the sanctions to include areas now aiding the Smith regime--South Africa, Portuguese Mozamzique, and Angola. The British might also attempt to seal off the borders by military intervention...
Finding pertinent answers to these questions means piercing beneath the Department stereotypes and routine data to seek out articulate informants. In this first issue, we have been more descriptive than critical, for the guide's primary function is not to praise or damn the departments, but to help freshmen reach a decision. But this beginning investigation should lead to further in-depth studies of the departments. And future guides, hopefully, can report not only what the departments are, but also what they ought...