Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radical Innovation. Tunghai will consciously avoid imitating the mainland colleges in its educational program. The political realities of modern Asia, President Tseng believes, demand an education that is both broader and more practical than that offered in the traditional Chinese university system. Tunghai students will get heavy doses of history, the classics, the social sciences. They will also be required to do some nonacademic labor (a radical innovation in the Orient, where intellectuals have traditionally regarded manual labor as degrading). Since Tunghai is located in rich farming land, the university may eventually establish a student farm that will supply...
...teamsters' building is the most opulent, but only one of many union structures in Washington. For despite the dictum of A.F.L. Founder Sam Gompers to avoid Government entanglement, one by one, U.S. unions have been moving to the nation's capital. As one A.F.L. official put it: "What happens on Capitol Hill is bound to affect [unions], and they can be more effective by moving their top people to Washington." Today 51 unions have their national headquarters in the capital, with still more coming in. Next, an eight-story, air-conditioned building will open in time to house...
Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming last week handed U.S. oil companies a knotty problem. Foreign oil, said he, is coming into the country too fast. If U.S. companies want to avoid their first taste of Government import curbs, they must cut crude-oil imports voluntarily by 7% during the last quarter of 1955 and the first of 1956. A House Judiciary subcommittee promptly let out a shout of warning. Asked the subcommittee: How could the oil companies comply without acting in concert and thus violating antitrust laws? Flemming pointed out that he had merely made a suggestion...
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Actually, it is hard to avoid the pessimistic conclusion that the prophets of gloom have the figures on their side and that Harvard will not be able to reconcile expansion and continued quality. Even now, the University cannot meet certain significant challenges. The dormitories are greatly overcrowded, many lecture rooms are bulging, and laboratory space is inadequate. The cost of new Houses merely to alleviate the present room shortage is staggering, and a campaign for funds to build enough new Houses, classrooms, laboratories, and another Lamont, would absorb the University's energies for at least the next ten years. Most...