Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...recent article on "The Concentration of Scholarship Funds and Its Implications for Education," John L. Holland, Research Director of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, claimed that the concentrated wealth and "narrow talent-searching" of the fifty most wealthy American universities has stifled student creativity and the quality of other institutions. The article raises questions that demand consideration: scholarship funds are scarce at most schools and methods of awarding them often favor those in high economic groups and with good grades. But the article contributes little to evaluating or solving these problems because of its imprecise arguments and its belligerent assignment...
...welcoming the 1160 undergraduates and over 430 graduate students Radcliffe, President Bunting stated, "It is not in terms of narrow vocationalism that high expectations with respect with women become important . . . but as evidence of the intellectual and democratic attitudes that have been and still remain the hope of human evolution...
Beards & Basins. At the Cherche-Midi court in Paris, 25 defendants crowded the dock. Almost all were under 30, most of them wore the corduroy jackets, sandals, beards and basin hairdos familiar in the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter. They were members of the "Jeanson" organization, accused of much more than mere distaste for government policies and practices. They were charged with smuggling money out of France to buy arms and munitions for the F.L.N. columns fighting the French in Algeria. All but six of the 25 were French men and women-teachers, mathematicians, TV producers, actors...
...nation's wealthiest students. Their "need" was made clear in a 1957 report that only 18% of Harvard's scholarship holders came from families with incomes below $4,000. Worse, such colleges' "reliance on test scores and high school grades has led to a relatively narrow kind of talent-searching-the search for good grade-getters." And grade-giving usually favors the conformist, says Holland, not the independent creator, who may have far more potential talent...
...planning, e.g., Rexford Guy Tugwell, gave way to the legal bird dogs of reform recruited mostly from Harvard Law School by Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. As Schlesinger sees it, the heady momentum of social experimentation had been lost, Roosevelt temporarily wallowed in "a stew of indecision." and a narrow Supreme Court majority stood poised to strike down NRA, AAA and a host of other government alphabetical agencies...