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...Brave officer, able Senator, Son of Harvard; loyal to party, he remains stead-fast to principle." So read the inscription on the honorary Doctor of Laws degree conferred by Harvard on the then junior Senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy '40, at the 1957 Commencement ceremonies...
...administrators: authority. For professors: teaching. For students: learning." Brave sentiments for an educator in Latin America, where many state-run universities are little more than incubators for budding young revolutionaries. But the speaker was Rector Jorge R. Camargo of Argentina's Catholic University of Córdoba, and his words describe a notable trend in Latin America: the rise of Roman Catholic universities devoted exclusively to edu cation, where the signs on the bulletin board are mimeographed class schedules, not student calls to arms...
...Brave Banker Beckhardt has also gone all out for instinct. Trumpeted he last week, in words that would freeze the mind of any FHA man: "Castellaras is a village of foetuses...
...Dirksen was in his most Vesuvian oratorical humor. Dodd's criticisms, he cried, amounted to "incoherencies." Noting that Dodd had not yet arrived on the floor, Dirksen said that "the brave crusader from the Nutmeg State on his white charger has great zeal for being here and getting on with business, and he is not here...
Speaking roughly, there were two varieties of white in southwest Georgia this summer. There were those, first of all, whose conceptions of the good brave beautiful man they would like to be had made academic life dangerously unsatisfying. At another level, this usually seems to have had something to do with a left-wing upbringing, some early identification, a driving need for fame, notoriety, praise or persecution, or an inadequate sex life on the campus. At first they debated a great deal about the Movement: Was it revolutionary or reformist and so on. But for all of them, working...