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...report, Pusey cited the fact that each year the percentage of students on the Dean's List has grown with 40 per cent of all undergraduates achieving this rank. He emphasized "This is not to say that there are brighter or abler students in college now than there were five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which...
...would succeed Mollet? Mollet has held office for 10½ months, longer than any one expected him to, proving himself an abler politician than he was given credit for being. He lasted largely because he has faced up to disagreeable tasks (e.g., drafting soldiers for Algeria) that few other French politicians relished. With gas rationing, unemployment and inflation building up, and no Algerian solution in sight, the problems facing the next Premier appear even less attractive. No obvious candidate has yet appeared, but ingenious solutions were being peddled, including a "Syndicat des anciens," or a Cabinet composed entirely...
...information and ideas. There are, of course, dozens of other sources-TV, radio, newsmagazines, labor papers, community papers, outside dailies, etc.-that also provide information and ideas. And if a monopoly newspaper is really bad, then it won't last long as a monopoly. New competition by abler and more socially minded newspapermen will displace and supersede it." Some of the best papers in the U.S., says he, have no competition in their morning or evening local field, e.g., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, Miami Herald...
...dinner and play poker with the President. On another occasion, F.D.R. brought him around with a pleasant note: "My dear Harold, will you ever grow-up?" Roosevelt assured Ickes that "mighty few Secretaries" could do what Harold could. Three months later, Harold was telling his hero: "You are much abler and smarter than [President] Wilson...
Because of the simultaneous expansion of the functions of government on national and local levels, there is a greater need than ever before for better and abler people in all its fields...