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Recalling those bitter days of uphill struggle, De Gaulle himself has written: "I was starting from scratch. In France, no following and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor standing. But this very destitution showed me my line of conduct. It was by adopting without compromise the cause of the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man of the Year | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Whitlock noted that the University is preparing to build 12-story dormitory buildings so that it will not be "forced to acquire more Cambridge land." Stringent height and bulk restrictions in the new ordinance might drive the University to purchase more property "than we either desire to or than we...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Civic Groups Discuss New Zoning Ordinance | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

Even sweeter for King is the fact that he now stands alone as a giant of the press, just as did his famed uncle, Alfred Harmsworth, first and last Lord Northcliffe and turn-of-the-century founder of Britain's popular press. (Amalgamated was founded by Northcliffe, strayed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of Kings | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

By far the most common and most influential version of the "clear-thinking" justification for higher education revolves around the breadth of perspective which undergraduates are supposed to acquire from exposure to new student and faculty attitudes. It is common to suppose that scholars have almost unlimited horizons and that...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Higher Education for Women; Problem in the Marketplace | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

The training which this leader gets in college is also subject to misinterpretation. Colleges like Harvard are prone to suppose that their job is not to train youngsters, but to intellectualize those already destined for the elite. No one would deny the importance of such efforts should they succeed, but...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Higher Education for Women; Problem in the Marketplace | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

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