Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
...Virginia 19, West Virginia...
ARMAND E. SINGER West Virginia University Morgantown, W. Va. ¶ Reader Singer is right. At the time of Cervantes' death, Protestant England was using the Julian (Old Style) calendar, which was ten days behind Spain's-and the rest of Catholic Europe's-Gregorian (New Style) calendar...
...member of the Negro race, and one who has held professorships in the state colleges of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and Florida, I was intrigued by the analytical article "Double Standard" [TIME...
third-rate education in overcrowded, ram shackle schools. This documentary focuses on the painstaking three-year fight by plain citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up dramatic conflict. But as a detailed primer on rescuing a down-at-heels school system, it suggests a solid public service and offers inspiring evidence that aroused parents can get results when they take their problems into their own hands...