Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black students demanding courses in Afro-American studies? I'm with 'em. Courses in Afro-American studies leading to terminal degrees? I'm with 'em. A hyperactive four-letter-word demagogue to head the Department of Afro-American Studies? I ain't with 'em. Black students determining what shall be taught in Afro-American studies? I ain't with 'em. Terminal degrees in Afro-American studies leading toward solving black social, psychological, education and economic problems? I'm with 'em-all the way. Black students demanding segregation within integration? Never...
...working ottin', after an industrious logger named Otto. To call a big fire in the grate a jeffer, because old Jeff Vestal always had a big fire going. To say charlie ball for embarrass, because old Charlie Ball, a local Indian, was so shy he never said a word. To say forbes, short for four bits, and tubes, for two bits. To call a phone a buckywalter after Walter Levi, known back then for having a phone at home. To say ball for good, because the old standard of quality was the Ball-Band shoe, with the red ball...
...deficient preparation on the part of potential black students--although this has also been a significant factor--than one of locating the black talent that does exist. Most blacks have probably been deterred from applying to Harvard by its prestigious and frightening reputation. A systematic program, supplemented by word-of-mouth, appears to be the only answer...
...Deadalus emphasis has been on "relevance" more than "participation." The first forty issues had ten with the word "American" in the title. Of these ten, Daedalus takes special pride for the two consecutive 1965 volumes on the Negro American. Those two editions summoned contributors from a great number of disciplines to fill a gap in American
...decisions. The ROTC departments do work closely with Faculty representatives and the Faculty has theoretically retained some control over ROTC curricula. However, in such basic matters as the exclusion of ROTC students before they have received their commissions, the unit commander, and not the Faculty, must have the final word...