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At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, […]

At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, […]

Academics fear that government cuts may force poorer students to abandon the arts for vocational courses. Photograph: Paul Barton/Corbis Fears are growing of a “gentrification” of arts and humanities degrees as new figures reveal that the courses have become the preserve of wealthy students. Statistics released to the Observer by the Sutton Trust, an influential […]