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Last month flaxen-haired Mike Hawthorn, 29, became the first Briton to win the world's driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lance's Legacy | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Young tutors interested in History and Lit find the avenue for advancement there at best uncertain, and hence devote most of their time to a department. As a result, History and Lit is populated by a part-time, transient staff that is too large for a cohesive discipline.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Impermanent Wave | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

Admittedly, the establishment of a few permanent positions in History and Lit will not prove a cure-all for the field's difficulties. But any system that will enable some men on a high faculty level to devote most of their time to History and Lit would surely be a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Impermanent Wave | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

Thus, there is no avenue of advancement for young tutors interested in History and Lit; if they wish to survive, they must devote their time to a department. Under the present system, there can be no such thing as a full-time History and Lit man; the tutors are almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Literature: A Synthetic Dicipline | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

The most significant move, however, is the transfer of Dean Leighton from University Hall to Dudley House, where he will become Master of a House, not yet on equal footing with the rest of the University. Dean Leighton's long-standing and serious concern with the problem of commuting students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Old Order Changeth | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

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