Word: cosmopolitan
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...City authorities think it's alright for less conspicuous creatures to loiter. Relaxation gives a town a cosmopolitan air, and even a few of Cambridge's Finest can be seen leaning against the Three Feathers displays in a particular Square establishment. But the old ladies of DcWolf Street have been writing the mayor that the buses lying in the middle of the Square are blocking their view of the subway kiosk, and 1955 is an election year...
...more cosmopolitan nature of Harvard's student body also helps to produce the absence of group spirit. 303 colleges and 30 different nations were represented in last year's enrollment. Yale, one-third Harvard's size does well to attract its students from 152 colleges and 15 foreign countries. The myth about Yale's "policy approach" probably tends to appeal to a certain type of student--one interested in social, as well as legal, values. Harvard, it is claimed, is made to order for the individualist, the student who is interested in broadening his intellectual capacity through contact with...
...whole. This heavy proportion is not really surprising, since the New York State population probably contains enough college students to fill a dozen schools of Cornell's size. But the heavy New York State representation, especially in the undergraduate divisions, probably makes the Cornell community somewhat less cosmopolitan than are several of the other Ivy League schools...
Poulenc: Nocturnes (Grant Johannesen, pianist; Concert Hall). Some sweet-sour (but mostly sweet) vaporizing by Cosmopolitan Composer Poulenc. Lightweight and pleasant, expertly played...
When Nanyang opens in the fall of 1955, it will have only three colleges: arts, science and business. But eventually, its founders hope it will be an intellectual center for all of free Southeast Asia. With a cosmopolitan faculty, Chancellor Lin and Sponsors Tan and Lien are agreed that the student body should be interracial. As such, they think, Nanyang may well become free China's academic frontier, the conserver of its culture, its link with the West. "I say this humbly," says Tan, "but into the diverse cultures of the South Seas - Burma, Thailand, IndoChina...