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However, the indictment is not a blanket one: "This does not mean that the universities are complete failures; it merely means that they are far more unsuccessful, according to their own standards, than they are generally willing to admit." In large part, Williams attributes the failure of self-analysis to the limitations of the professorial personality...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Modern University Professor: Does He Fiddle as Rome Burns? | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

Early reports of this penalty, leaked by a national news service, provoked some students to protest against what seemed a blanket prohibition of any class cuts or social activities in college rooms. But the Dean's statement made clear that general probation means only "immediate dismissal for further public misconducts of any kind," and the general undergraduate feeling was that it was just a strong warning to stay out of trouble. As one student put it "It really doesn't mean anything...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Frederick W. Byron jr., (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Yale Deans Place All Students On Probation for Parade Riot | 3/17/1959 | See Source »

Radcliffe scholarships will be raised in specific cases of individual hardship in order to meet the new increase in rent charges, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, announced yesterday. A blanket enlargement of all grants, without consideration of personal difficulties, will not be undertaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Plans To Increase Scholarships | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

Dyke Benjamin came in fifth, 17 seconds behind Dick Greene set a Heps and Barton Hall record of 9:20.7. Dash man Sandy Dodge was a disappinting fifth in a blanket finish at 60 yards, and the Crimson failed to score in the 600, the 1000, and both jumps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Track Team Places Fifth In Heptagonals With Weak Showing | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...pajamas and a hospital blanket, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles got into a wheelchair at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital just before 10:30 one morning last week, was wheeled down to a concrete-walled basement room 20 ft. square. A 1½-ton, lead-shielded door closed behind him as orderlies helped him onto a table. From the ceiling, doctors and orderlies pulled down the snout of a huge, telescope-like General Electric X-ray machine and pointed it at the patient's lower abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Heart & Head | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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