Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hershey was facing an uncompromising set of facts. Once they reached the 3,000,000-man level the armed forces would need 750,000 men a year to stay there. Every year, only 1,100,000 turn 18, and 30% of them are predictably physically unfit. Left to the draft: an annual crop of approximately 800,000 boys from which to raise the 750,000 needed...
Other college mobilizations developments over the weekend--on a national level--included a new draft proposal and a meeting in Washington of educators from 600 U.S. colleges and universities on "long range plans for higher education in today's troubled world...
...blaze-faced chestnut in the Jonabell consignment. Although the colt looked like a good buy at the modest $4,500 which Widener bid him in for, he failed to show top stakes quality in early training. So Widener packed him off to Florida, to let him find his own level at Hialeah's winter meeting...
...Treat boys as boys. "Students in minor [largely high-school level] seminaries are adolescents separated from their natural habitat: the family. Hence it is necessary that their life be as much as possible a boy's normal life...
Admissions standards for matriculated students were raised to accord with those in effect in the college. And the acting director of G. S., John A. Krout, who succeeded Ayres upon the latter's death, asserted in March, 1949, that the level of teaching was equal in the two depart- ments. The only difference, he said, was in the age of students, which averaged 18 in the college...