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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...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...Virginia 19, West Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scores of Other Games | 10/30/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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