Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balance of economic and social groups in the College is to be maintained, Haveles's figures show, the University will have to increase its present scholarship and loan expenditures. Already there are long lines waiting at the scholarship office door, Haveles commented yesterday...
Freshman taste was lauded by Jeromo C. Bruner, lecturer on Social Psychology, who complimented them on their favorite choice. "That Li'l Abner is first," he said, "shows discrimination on the part of the students, since the strip is on a relatively high intellectual level...
...rocaleitrant Congress. One of the Committee's promoters, a state senator from Missouri, had just been converted to MVA by a tour through the Tennessee Valley, "The trip completely eliminated from my mind the erroncous idea that TVA was of a socialistic, regimenting, paternalistic character, dabbling in social service, character-building, folk dancing and other foreign fields," he said. But President Truman's original enthusiasm for MVA was waning, and Congress was happy to let the controversial Murray Bill gather dust...
Private boarding schools, despite their social amenities and allegedly tougher curricula, take a scholastic back seat to high schools. Research made public this week by a Grant Study anthropologist reveals that College students with a high school background consistently outrank their private school counterparts...
...club will back liberal Democrats for local, state, and national office, and will work for an all-inclusive federal civil rights law. Other planks in the platform are the maintenance of rent controls for the duration of the housing shortage, a 70 cent hourly minimum wage, and extension of Social Security benefits...