Word: cherished
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Little Lost Soul. All this clearly leads to more specialization, upsetting those who cherish the values of general education-and four years of it in a liberal arts atmosphere. They see colleges becoming mere cram schools for graduate study, and at some prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go on studying (national rate: 33%). The generalists are also unhappy about speedup advanced-standing schemes in which students skip entire years. (They approve the extra-credit Advanced Placement Program.) At Harvard, Classicist John Finley argues that even ultrabrights need time to grow up. "A student can fly from the West...
...pressure is simply absurd, and we find it hard to believe that it was offered seriously. Where an individual feels that he sees an ethical problem, he has not only the right but the duty to present it for discussion. We know that the members of the academic community cherish this opportunity as an important part of the academic heritage...
...terms," George Bernard Shaw once said. The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, can readily see Shaw's point-that religious dogma seems incompatible with the scientific spirit of skeptical, free inquiry. He can just as readily reply to Shaw. "We must cherish both values. We must reflect the 'ancient beauty, ever old and ever new,' " he says. "There is no conflict between science and theology except where there is bad science or bad theology...
Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon scores impressively for no-nonsense administration of his department, for a clear-eyed approach to such sticky problems as the gold flow, foreign aid, and tariff reduction; the new balanced budget gives Dillon another boost. He and Kennedy both cherish his Republicanism...
Kick in the Guts. Advocates of Sensitivity Training insist that most participants wind up enthusiastic about the program, contend that the only critics are uncooperative types who so cherish their emotional privacy that they refuse to enter into the spirit of the thing. Somewhere in the middle stands Vice President Robert Mitchell of Mattel, Inc., a fast-growing Los Angeles toy company that encourages its executives to sign on for Sensitivity Training. Arguing that only Sensitivity Training provides "the emotional kick in the guts" necessary to make an executive recognize his personality weaknesses, Mattel says: "I have seen a third...