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...dilemma seemed resolved in 1960 when President Kennedy pied-piped youth to Washington. "The college student couldn't help feeling some identification with a commander in chief who had to have a special haircut to look the part," says President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College. Here was a president who called on youth to serve-and provided the Peace Corps, the Foreign Legion of this college generation...
...those heady days, Chatham's Eddy predicted a student revolution "which could sweep all higher education." But as Eddy recently reported with chagrin, "it just hasn't happened that way." Eddy cites "youth's decreasing identification with the Kennedy Administration," tracing it to "the shock and the terror" that hit collegians during last fall's Cuban crisis. Says he: "We had forgotten how good the world had been to them...
Strong & Balanced. Such personalism fails to impress some campus observers. "The big picture is unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have...
...historian and teacher, known to his students as "Bonnie Prince Charlie," who as president of Yale University from 1937 to 1950 reorganized science faculties, established an Oriental language center, defended Yale's academic independence ("We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences"); after a long illness; in Chatham, Mass...
...boys' trick event, Tom Chatham ran 2174 points to easily outclass the rest of the field. Chatham used the difficult and rarely-seen 360 degree toehold turn...