Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educational systems. If these are so poor, so ignorant or so depraved that the draft is needed to train young men, then it would seem self-evident that we should spend more money for better schools, more for public health, and work out some educational and character-building program for young parents...
...sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been placed upon .the sacrificial altar...
...Congress had spent the week clearing away a mass of legislative underbrush in preparation for the debate on ERP. There had been distractions. From the wings came the sound of angry mutterings and sudden shouts. It was the South's Democrats, denouncing Harry Truman for his civil-rights program. Republicans gleefully pushed and prodded. In the Senate, they dusted off an FEPC bill, pushed the House's anti-poll tax bill toward floor consideration. In the House, a Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited on Speaker...
Geography, since its introduction in 1928, has been under the construed of the Geology Department. But because of its growing importance to the Social Sciences and the Regional Studies Program on Russia and China, it has become less of an exact science. A minority of the professors of Geology who are interested in science for the sake of since have, therefore, favored crippling economics that threaten to wine out the entire subject. The attitude appears to be blind to the aims of General Education, which call for an increase in courses that cut across departmental lines. It is also blind...
Upwards of 300 athletes from Dartmouth, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and the above three colleges pack the 13-event program...