Word: races
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many schools they house and feed most of the student body. They frequently run the social and extra-curricular life of those schools. Educational authorities estimate that 90 per cent of these fraternities have discriminatory clauses in their charters. Most specify "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race;" some southern groups go even further, and admit only White Protestants." Last week, the fraternities voted that chapters should "take steps" to climinate such admission bars...
...Roller Derby is a watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16 laps to a mile, by two teams of five players each. Each club has two teams--one of men, one of women--which race for alternate 15-minute periods. Two halves of four 15-minute periods each constitute a night's competition...
...representative of the Liberal Union presented a brief recommending that the rules include a clause prohibiting discrimination on grounds of "race, religion, color, or creed" for all undergraduate groups except political and religious ones...
...River-Bed. Unofficially, in his letters, Lafcadio Hearn told a different story. "It seems as if everything had suddenly become clear to me, and utterly void of emotional interest," he wrote a few years after his arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all is like a Japanese riverbed . . . never filled but in times of cataclysm and destruction." The Japanese government added to his disillusionment by easing him out of his university job. In the last years of his life he often longed to escape both family and country. He never did. A heart attack...
...difficult for even the best comedians to wrestle with such tired stuff as this. The authors--Garson Kanin, who wrote "Rat Race" and "Born Yesterday," and his wife Ruth Gordon--lacked their usual light touch on this...