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Certainly Harvard must not go down this path in its campaign to obtain an all-round national student body. Athletics are still an extra-curricular activity. A university is still basically a community of scholars seeking after truth. It is not, nor should it ever become, the refuge of the physically able seeking after money...
...educators looked earnestly for ways to batten down the hatches against the long blow. Should they accelerate courses in order to cram as many students into their programs as possible? That, said Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, would only produce "an all-round lowering of standards and cheapening of products." Most college presidents agreed. What about outright Government subsidies? "We'd rather go around in rags," cried President V. Raymond Edman of Wheaton (111.) College-and most educators agreed with that...
Five years later, the vast reservoir of nope and trust created in Iran is running dry. The danger from Russia today is greater than in 1946. The present Iran picture is one of all-round distrust between Americans, British and Iranians. Desperately and suicidally, the Iranians are back in an old game that they cannot win-trying to play the Russians off against the Western powers. Divided and discouraged, Iran lies defenseless-and the U.S. is doing nothing to protect...
Boston editors, looking for all-round coverage, say they have a right to be annoyed. Last month the Radcliffe Publicity Office told them that the inter-dorm song contest would begin at 9 p.m. Then Miss Projansky found out some girls were doing a number in pajamas. She freely admits: "I told Rachel (contest chairman Rachel Mellinger '52) to put that on first, before...
...College is concerned with the whole person, with the healthy all-round development of its students . . . Thus an effective advising program will be concerned with emotional problems, moral problems, economic problems, personal relationships, and career and vocational problems. The College's competence and responsibility in dealing with these matters, however, are not as great as they are in dealing with specifically academic problems...