Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North--for its part--must not assume that the rides are anything more than a token of the bankruptcy of the segregationist movement. Set against the tides of migration--poor whites as well as Negroes--already leaving the farms of the South, the New Orleans refugees are insignificant, the tiniest handful of bewildered, defeated...
...with the best winners ever. Reflecting better high school guidance, the colleges got fewer applicants than last year: 36,000 boys for 8,630 places in the eight-campus Ivy League; 9,800 girls for 2,800 places at the "Big Seven" women's colleges. By the same token, rejections were more heartbreaking than ever. Columbia and Radcliffe reported that 85%-90% of all applicants were perfectly qualified; there was simply no more room. Except for Columbia College, which aims to raise enrollment by 60% to 4,000, the top colleges are loath to expand...
About four hundred men of Harvard cheered an elephant named Sonita last night from the steps of Widener Library. They also threw $24.33, one MTA token, and one D.C. transit token on those steps to rent her Friday, when she will race under the colors of the Harvard Elephant Racing Association in Fullerton, Calif...
...guest speaker was New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the occasion a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for 1,640 Nassau County (Long Island) Republicans. As a token, Dinner Chairman Salvatore Malone provided each diner with a silver dollar encased in plastic-leading Rocky to recall: "It was my grandfather's custom for years to give away dimes. But tonight Sal Malone is giving away dollars. It just shows it pays to stick along with the Republican Party-three generations, dimes to dollars...
Whiffing and poofing, Yalemen heard last week that little ewes may some day stray into the college as undergraduates. "Yale has a national duty," said a faculty report, "to provide the rigorous training for women that we supply for men." Moreover, "women should not be admitted on a token basis but as a substantial proportion of each class." Old Blues turned purple at the report, although Yale already has 800 women graduate students...