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Whitla's survey is an empirical support for a truism: that personal contact with the faculty means better-educated graduates--even by a present standard of "liberal education." Being a truism, it is apt to be ignored, and being true, it should...
Brown, Cornell, Columbia, and Yale have a requirement nearly double that of Harvard. In effect, a good student at one of these colleges must study a language for two years before receiving the needed credits; at Harvard, an apt student can satisfy the requirement after a single year...
...Degas' case, the subject was apt to be a ballet dancer; in Soyer's, it might be a young actress, a painter or a seamstress. But all his figures-whether a girl, a member of his family, or even himself-have the same bemused quality. "When people are by themselves, they begin to look like that, ' he explains. "Even in a crowd, they walk against you without seeing you,' their expression a kind of moody emptiness " Soyer's people live in a world of subdued color, curbed motion and meticulous design; yet they brim with...
...existentialist," present-centered thinking. We are, Snow feels, self-satisfied and unmindful of the starving other two-thirds of the human race. We should make it a goal of our drifting society to feed these people. Such a goal would require planning ahead. Since scientists are more apt to think in terms of the future ("they have a sense of knowledge to come"), we need more scientists in government...
...England's weekly journals of opinion, the New Statesman is beyond much doubt the best written, best edited, most successful-and most maddening. It is read round the world, has particular standing among Asian intellectuals, including India's Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole...