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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, there is the possibility of expanding present colleges. For state colleges this will be a necessity; they will be forced to do so by the state legislatures on which they depend for financial support. For private institutions like Harvard, there is a choice--a choice based not primarily on money but on educational ideals, which makes it all the more difficult to decide...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Harvard Expansion | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...what was being said to him on very rare occasions, and predicting these moments was utterly impossible. The courses and the books which suddenly registered and left the deepest imprint on him seemed to be unrelated to the greatness of the subject-matter, author, or lecturer, and to depend almost entirely upon their relevance to his own inscrutable mental movement...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Molding a Man Through 'Liberal' Education | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Stone said that the bindery employees voted to join a union other than the Building Service local, and noted that the final outcome of the balloting among employees of the Department of Athletics will depend upon a ruling by the State Labor Relations Commission on the eligibility of two voters, whose ballots were contested by the local last month...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: HUERA Head Says AFL Misleads Personnel Here | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

...other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality as well as quantity from that of even the higher apes. As a Pavlovian, Sargant sees all the phenomena he describes as "physiological" though obviously they depend on emotional reactions, with physical changes present only in some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychology of Brainwashing | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Fronts. Admitting that his "understanding with the Catholic Church" found no precedent in any other socialist state, or even "in such capitalist countries as the U.S. and France," Gomulka insisted that the kind of socialism he envisaged for Poland would in the long run "depend on the shaping of relations between the People's State and the church." Nevertheless the guiding power on Gomulka's road would be a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat. Inside the party he promised "full freedom of speech," but outside no party member (and presumably no private person) would have the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Crisis & a Question | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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