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Such groupings consist of multiversities merging with the "knowledge industry" all around, forming a new "Ideopolis." The result is "an extraordinarily productive environment," says Kerr-one that puts the multiversity squarely in the life of society rather than being an inward-looking "house of intellect." The multiversity cannot go back: "Knowledge is wanted, even demanded, by more people than ever before. Knowledge today is for everybody's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Ideopolis for the World | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Harvard College, therefore, seems to consist largely of a process of limited interaction between scholars and students. In which the scholars often ignore the humanistic values of liberal education, show a disregard of reason in their practices, and in fact do little but recreate their own kind among their students, while a group of disaffected undergraduates seek elsewhere for what they think Harvard should offer. Am I mistaken as to the purported aim of Harvard College? Is it really meant to be a trade school, despite all protestations to the contrary? Or should the Peace Corps send some real teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail: Second Look at Harvard College | 4/27/1963 | See Source »

Since the school committees consist of elected officials, the first response to PBH's offer to supply undergraduate volunteer teachers was not overwhelming; in fact, one former PBH official described the response as "downright antagonistic...

Author: By Richard L. Levine, | Title: Undergraduate Teacher Program Faces Problems of Acceptance and Expansion | 4/24/1963 | See Source »

...should consist of Polaris-armed surface vessels instead. Though it would be of little strategic value, a 25-ship surface force would cost only $500 million yearly, far less than a submarine fleet. To most Europeans, the strongest argument for the MLF was that it would give West Germany a voice in nuclear strategy and possibly discourage it from developing nuclear weapons of its own, with or without help from France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MULTIBAFFLEMENT | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...fund eventually would increase the reputation of conservatives by offering economic assistance to attract them to the faculty. Its influence would come into play only after the nomination of such a faculty member, and would probably consist in establishing an endowed chair to attract the candidate to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seek Conservative Eli Faculty | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

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