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but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.
The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.
He is no dextrous-fingered college boy but rather a dedicated, humble, and bashful apostle of this instrument.
There is now substantial evidence from several major studies of college students that the experience of the college years results in a certain, selective homogenization of attitudes and values.
The approval of only three members of the board of school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted to the college.
A college service of worship is held each Sunday morning at eleven o'clock in the Chapel.
The Carletonian, the college newspaper, is edited by students and published by the College under the supervision of the Publications Board.
) It is issued weekly throughout the college year.
The Algol, the college annual, is published in the fall of each year.
the Carleton Student Association includes all students in college and is intended `` to work for the betterment of Carleton College by providing student government and student participation with the college administration in the formulation and execution of policies which pertain to student life and activities ''.
The critical task for every president and his academic administrative staff is to assure that the college or university continually rebuilds and regenerates itself so that its performance will match changing social demands.
Before deciding where it is going, however, a college or university must know where it is.
The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree.
Only the independent art schools, that is, those not connected with any university or college, receive severe and separate investigation before accreditation by the various regional organizations.
A further possibility is suggested by the example of the G. I. bills and also by some recent trends in attitudes toward improving college education: that is to provide financial assistance to individuals for vocational training when local facilities are inadequate.
One social-class factor which plays a large part in educational policy today is the fact that a great many school and college teachers are upward mobile from urban lower-class and lower-middle-class families.
Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.
And so well is such ignorance preserved by the amateur and the money-maker that even at the college level most of the hundred-odd folklore courses given in the United States survive on sentiment and nationalism alone.
The percentage of Jewish girls who attend college is almost as high as that of boys.
The vocational motive is the dominant one for boys, while Jewish girls attend college for social reasons and to become culturally developed.

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I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
His ambition was noted by other MPs, and David Owen's opposition to the changes to the electoral college was thought to be motivated by the realisation that they would favour Kinnock's succession.
At 4am, Cowles noted " a very buoyant Willkie appeared, cocky as a young college student after a successful night with a girl.
A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.
Third Court is also noted for its display of irises in May and June, a gift to the college in 1946.
It was noted as an " overachieving college " based on an " exceptionally high graduation rate " and " has a high percentage of students who go to earn doctoral degrees and achieves those numbers through efficient use of resources.
Some scholars such as S. F. Alatas have noted some parallels between Madrasahs and early European colleges and have thus inferred that the first universities in Europe were influenced by the Madrasahs in Islamic Spain and the Emirate of Sicily .. Other scholars such as George Makdisi, Toby Huff and Norman Daniel, however, have questioned this, citing the lack of evidence for an actual transmission from the Islamic world to Christian Europe and highlighting the differences in the structure, methodologies, procedures, curricula and legal status of the " Islamic college " ( madrasa ) versus the European university.
The college is noted as being one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the nation, with students from over 170 countries enrolled.
* Samuel Doak, ( 1749 – 1830 ), born in Augusta County, noted Presbyterian clergyman, founder of Washington College, the first college west of the Alleghenies, noted abolitionist
* William Palmer Jones ( 1819 – 1897 ), born in Adair County, was a noted physician, academic journal editor, college professor, and member of the Tennessee State Senate.
Also, Batesville is the home of Lyon College, a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), and noted for the annual Arkansas Scottish Festival each spring.
It has nationally-ranked business college along with noted nursing, architecture, biology, and computer sciences departments.
The city is the home of Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts college noted for its academics and its influence in politics and education.
The college is also noted for the pillar sundial in the main quadrangle, known as the Pelican Sundial, which was erected in 1581 by Charles Turnbull.
Speaking in 1879, he noted that fewer students from the college were reaching high standards in examinations, and that more Welsh students were choosing to study at other Oxford colleges in preference to Jesus.
The brochure produced for the opening ceremony noted that the number of science students at the college had increased rapidly in recent years, and that provision of college laboratories would assist the tuition of undergraduates, as well as attracting to Jesus College graduates of the University of Wales who wished to continue their research at Oxford.
The very high educational attainments of Asian Americans has often been noted ; in 1980, for example, 74 % of Chinese Americans, 62 % of Japanese Americans, and 55 % of Korean Americans aged 20 – 21 were in college, compared to a third of the whites.
* Pitzer College ( founded 1963 ), a small, coeducational, liberal arts college offering an alternative curriculum, noted for interdisciplinarity.
He was considered one of the most outstanding college players in the nation his junior and senior seasons at West Point, noted as both a power hitter and an outfielder with one of the best arms in his day.
Battlebots noted on its Twitter page a Battlebots competition scheduled for April 8 – 12, 2010 in the San Francisco Bay Area, to feature a 220 lb professional league and 120 lb college / high school league as well as TableTop Robots.
The first extended description of Skull and Bones, published in 1871 by Lyman Bagg in his book Four Years at Yale, noted that " the mystery now attending its existence forms the one great enigma which college gossip never tires of discussing.
According to Warren Motte, noted members of the college have included Noël Arnaud ( Regent of General ' Pataphysics and Clinic of Rhetoriconosis, as well as Major Confirmant of the Order of the Grand Gidouille ), Luc Étienne also known as Luc Etienne Périn ( Regent ), Latis ( Private General Secretary to the Baron Vice-Curator ), François Le Lionnais ( Regent ), Jean Lescure ( Regent of Anabathmology ), and Raymond Queneau ( Transcendent Satrap ).

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