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...Since the pattern of student demonstrations began to emerge in 1964, professors and deans have anxiously consulted among themselves on what is wrong.... They have tried to meet student demands, for example, by enrolling black students by the coachload, even when they lacked qualifications and interest -- except to establish black power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONDON WAY | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...walls hung eleven U.S. Presidents, from John Quincy Adams to Chester Alan Arthur, a squad of Civil War generals, a covey of society ladies and a coachload of kings, queens and courtiers. There was the bland map of Healy's greatest patron-King Louis-Philippe of France. There were Andrew Jackson's maned, hard head and the bristle-bearded", tormented and flinty face of General William Tecumseh Sherman. There were Franz Liszt, Henry W. Longfellow, Jenny Lind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Skin-Deep | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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