Word: americans
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Lehigh will charge out of the huddle and group into a Split-T formation probably under the direction of quarterback Bob Scheu. The team sorely misses the flashy control of Little All-American Dan Nolan, who has joined the pro football rosters, and hopes that Scheu will become a similar giant. So far the left-handed sophomore seems to be on the way; against Gettysburg last weekend he completed 9 out of 16 passes for 133 yards...
Lehigh handles the problem of educating the engineer in the arts according to the philosophy of the American Society for Engineering Education, a group which can only be criticized for taking its own suggestions too seriously. It is assumed that the engineering student can give only a limited amount of time to non-technical subjects, and will derive the most return from highly integrated humanities and social sciences courses. Thus the general education program follows a nationally familiar pattern: freshman English, followed by courses each year in contemporary civilization, Great Books, History of Western Thought, or Practical Economics and Sociology...
...American educational craving for "three-two programs" (three years spent at a liberal arts college, followed by two years at an engineering school, sometimes hundreds of miles away) seems to make more sense as it is set up at Lehigh. The great drawback of the usual three-two program is that students who find it difficult to tear up roots at the end of their junior year refuse to move on and, instead, stay where they are and graduate in applied science, dropping out of engineering altogether. By providing the "three" and the "two" on the same campus, Lehigh encourages...
According to Dean Leith, who is in a position to know, fraternities are "here to stay," "part of the American way of life," and "a functional arm of the University...
Eisenhower, in answer to a letter from Senator Theodore F. Green, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, deplored Senator Green's statement that the American people would not support military action to save the islands. If the Red Chinese thought we weren't just one big militaristic team, the President said, they would be more likely to precipitate...