Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last year, she noted, Radcliffe received applications for the freshman class from approximately 1,000 "well-qualified" students. Only one-fourth could be accepted because of present limitations on pushing space.
"We want to set our house in order first and then consider the possibility expansion," she commented. With 92 per cent of the College currently in residence, the President noted, Radcliffe's dormitories are filled to overflowing already.
Moreover, the inconsistencies of the Supreme Court's 1959 decision with its opinions on segregation seem likely to become more and more conspicuous. At the same time, supporters of civil disobedience such as Uphaus will have to adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests...
Expansion of Radcliffe College is less important than the maintenance present standards of educational quality, President Mary I. Bunting declared yesterday.
"Getting bigger does not have the top priority," she said, denying that the college has an obligation to expand its enrollment. "We must try to assert our leadership by doing the best job we can," instead of increasing the size of the college without sufficient facilities, the President maintained.