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...offer opportunity for learningBut how them could Harvard award a degree? Perhaps by large extension of the tenuous recipre- city by which transfer student are now accredited. Or perhaps we would eventually do away with the degree. But how, if we did that, would the professional and business worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom uses for earnest evaluation of the merits of individuals. But what of the problem of disjointed careers? If we are convinced on the basis of evidence in hand that one should bind oneself...
...Sale. In his ramshackle capital of Stanleyville in faraway Eastern province, Antoine Gizenga discreetly remained in bed with a case of diplomatic "bronchitis." To help him assess his victory in the parliamentary elections, he had on hand a recently arrived delegation of Russian and Czech advisers. Remembering the botch they made of their effort to take over the Congo with Patrice Lumumba, the Communists this time may urge Gizenga to let President Kasavubu name one of his own men as Premier-on the theory that whoever he picks is bound to fail...
Obviously, it was still too early to assess the effect of the President's inevitable isolation. Yet there was evidence that as he came to grips with Berlin, he was recovering the confidence that had been temporarily shattered by the Cuban disaster...
...offer opportunity for learning. But how then could Harvard award a degree? Perhaps by large extension of the tenuous reciprocity by which transfer students are now accredited. Or perhaps we would eventually do away with the degree. But how, if we did that, would the professional and business worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom seen, for earnest evaluation of the merits of individuals. But what of the problem of disjointed careers? If we are convinced on the basis of evidence in hand that one should bind oneself...
Kennedy supporters assess Latin American reaction to the tractor deal as largely hostile to Fidel Castro, and believe that the U.S. has scored an unthinking propaganda coup. But whatever his critics or supporters decide, Kennedy was right to accept the offer. By spurning it, he would have been betraying the men the U.S. landed in Cuba, and giving Castro still another opportunity to remind Latin Americans of a fact that already know--that the burden of blame for Cuba today rests on the shoulders of the United States. Our pattern of denial must...