Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Big Business...
...people think he has the best chance of a successful major league career of any pitcher drafted this year. He's big, 6'5" at 225 1bs., and has the savvy to pitch, not just throw...
...American University, Jacques Barzun lambasts the big colleges for betraying the cause of liberal education to money, prestige, and product oriented research. The new "multiversity" is not a university at all, but a large "industry, suitably diversified, whose members honestly believe it gives good service and should go on forever as it is. Teaching as an art has almost disappeared on campus. Infatuation with research has perverted the meaning of education. "Students do not act like students," Barzun writes, "because adults have confused them about what education really is." Barzun admits, however, that he shares the resentment of the student...
Part of his book tries to describe in clear English the administrative routine, the departmental politics, the board of trustees, the foundations and the multiple demands made on the school by the neighborhood, big business, and government. Before he attempted this outline, Barzun apprenticed for twelve years as Dean of Faculties and Provost at Columbia. Since the "hero" of the book is naturally Columbia, his remarks on violence and student conceit have more than routine interest...
...big upset came in the 191 class match when John Imrie lost his balance in the process of pinning his Columbia opponent and was himself pinned. Imrie had been leading in points, 16-2, before he was pinned in the last 15 seconds...