Word: selection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the petition, "forcing each student at Harvard to select a field of concentration and to submit to the requirements of that department tends to suppress the academic interests of many students...
Grating as it seems, the black demand cannot be ignored by a nation that views education as salvation-indeed, as the key to bringing Negroes into the mainstream of U.S. life. Ironically, colleges have helped to bring the problem on themselves. For years, select colleges accepted a token handful of bright Negro students from relatively privileged homes. In effect, they blackballed ghetto youths for alleged failure to meet white academic standards. Now the colleges have broken their own rules (often smugly) by seeking "disadvantaged" Negroes, many of them straight out of the ghetto. The eight Ivy League colleges, for example...
...Because each Jubilee committee realizes the full extent of Boston's cultural and social assets. Therefore it must strive to provide activities which Boston itself cannot offer and to which lone individuals simply would not have access. The creativity of past committees has been uncanny, their ability to select top entertainment unsurpassed...
...this day too the President announced what had been a veiled threat to the select group of Sophomores and Freshmen called before him a few days previous: public charges were being formally lodged against the Freshmen for the destruction of University property. An investigation was to be launched by the Middlesex County Grand Jury...
...encouraged scores of other corporations to embark on ventures into artistic patronage. As a corporate Medici, Rockefeller sincerely considers the art that he buys not only a handy way to win investors or project a good image, but also a "notable source of pleasure and inspiration." Executives can select any kind of work they want in their offices (and happy executives are presumably better executives), but all acquisitions are approved by a committee of museum experts. Generally speaking, paintings tend to be by younger lesser-knowns, graphics by elder reliables (Picasso, Albers, Currier & Ives). The committee also complements its postwar...