Word: students
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan's hot, dusty capital last week, the students of Karachi University were still brooding over the posting of the worst examination results in the school's nine-year history. Fully 80% of the student body had failed one or more courses, and most of the failures were boys. The reason? Girls...
...fourth oldest university (after Heidelberg, Cologne and the now-defunct Erfurt). It survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann Eck in 1519). By the 18th century it was sternly Protestant in name and happily tolerant in fact. Student Johann Wolfgang Goethe spent much of his time impressing girls in local wine cellars, called the place "Little Paris." "It was a delightfully individualistic school," recalls a West German professor who studied there in the early 1930s, when it boasted many a towering scholar. "We studied hard. We enjoyed Leipzig...
Over $450,000 in student loan funds, the largest amount in the history of the College, will be made available to undergraduates by the Administration during the coming year. The sum represents a $100,000 addition to last year's total...
Such a proportionate increase will come, Bender explained, when agitation about student loans in America convinces parents that "it is as respectable to borrow money for college as it is to borrow money for a television...
...members wander out on the concert stage, may say a few words to each other, sometimes hiss when the student conductor takes the baton, and generally have a good time as they play. This informality and independence is typical of the organization...