Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity sextet, fresh and ready after its comeback victory over North-eastern, will provide the opposition at the Arena. Face-off time...
...matters of Far Eastern policy, Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson tends to see eye to eye with Britain's Anthony Eden and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. But last week, when both Eden and Nehru criticized the U.S. decision to end the Seventh Fleet patrol off Formosa (see INTERNATIONAL), Pearson cautiously parted company with them. Rising in Parliament, he said: "[The] statement by President Eisenhower . . . contained much that was wise and heartening to us all ... Canadians know President Eisenhower well . . . and have full confidence ... in his peaceful and constructive purposes. And I am convinced that...
Pearson's statement represented no fundamental change in Canada's Far Eastern policy. That policy, so far as it concerns China, is one of acceptance of the Communist conquest. Explains one Canadian diplomat: "The key word is passivity...
...Harvard was to get quite an education from President Conant. To broaden his student body (it was 60% Eastern), he set up a series of national scholarships to bring in able students from all over the U.S. To broaden the scope of his faculty, he created a series of university professorships "in the hope that distinguished scholars with a 'roving commission' would help to break down departmental barriers." Over protests from some professors, he plumped for a program of general education, and with the publication of the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), he placed an official...
...Black Knights of the Hudson returned yesterday to their West Point jousting grounds, bellies full of chlorinated water. A week ago they met invincible Yale, powerhouse of the Eastern Swimming League, and were crushed 63 to 21. Saturday they came to the Indoor Athletic Building and the Crimson swimmers--second best in the East--went one better to submerge them...