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...nonprofit institution devoted to research and study of the international aspects of American political and economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York for council meetings, symposiums with visiting statesmen, and library research...
...criticism of modern education is that outside of the physical and mathematical sciences, it tends to become more and more cowardly in its finding of facts and less and less courageous in the exploitation of such facts as it finds. Whereas the physical scientist boldly builds his breathtaking, ever-broadening structures upon precisely exact measurements extending far within the ten-thousandth of an inch, our social and political scientists tend constantly to broaden their basic concepts out of all semblance to necessary foundational depth ... In its progressively and ever more involved search for truth, socalled, the mind of our typical...
...cheapening education. Now and again, there may be violations of the scholarship first policy, but whatever pressure exists for recruiting an athletic elite, one may be sure, does not come from University Hall. The result of the Provost's fabled drive for "mid-western virility" has thus been to broaden and improve the student body, to draw on the best and the most diverse elements of the nation, while still retaining balance and high standards of scholarship...
Beyond a few generalizations (e.g., she will bury Oscar Swing's dream of socialized medicine, is seeking a way to broaden the base of social security), Mrs. Secretary Hobby has made no official pronouncements. Her work has been confined to cutting the budget, and routine command decisions (clearing the way for the appointment of eleven assistants of her own choosing, moving the office hours ahead half an hour). But Oveta's friends and admirers are certain she will have some surprises once she gets the hang of her job. Said one last week: "She'll stay...
Back in 1938, Adolf Hitler decided to broaden Munich's Sonnenstrasse as a parade ground for his brown-shirted heroes. Smack in the center of the avenue was the Lutherans' 106-year-old St. Matthew...