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French Ra and Rb are a set of two half-year courses open to students who have had two years of French in high school but have not passed the language requirement in French. The stated aim of the courses is to increase reading speed and comprehension. In practice, however, it is considered a terminal course and is usually taken as an easy way to fulfill the language requirement. French C, an intermediate course in French conversation and composition, has the same requirements and is usually taken byy students who plan to continue their study of French...
Student volunteers will conduct an adult literacy campaign this summer in Selma, Ala., in the heart of the southern "black belt." The immediate aim of the project is alleviation of widespread functional illiteracy, but the ultimate purpose is to make more Negroes qualified to vote...
Unified Knowledge. According to Chicago's catalogue, social thought now is "understood to refer to the ideas concerning the intellectual and moral foundations of society." According to Economist-Historian John U. Nef, 64, the committee's co-founder chairman, the aim is to combat the kind of blind specialization that an Oxford don once illustrated by boasting: "At last I have written a really good book. Not only will nobody read it. Nobody can read...
...Nation. German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who counts on the farm vote to help him in the next elections, probably was happy to put on a show of resistance before agreeing to lower farm prices. France, whose aim is to become Europe's breadbasket, feels that it has made only short-term concessions to its partners and no commitments at all to allow such outsiders as the U.S. to be big suppliers of food to the Market. The U.S. may not like the terms that the Market will present in the forthcoming general negotiations, where the President...
...Expedience. In this lively collection. Valentine, formerly president of the University of Rochester, offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that so corrupted...