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Five years ago, the Trustees voted to embark on a program that they hoped would lead to eventual accreditation of the Law School by the American Bar Association. (The Law School is also unaccredited.) And so Calvin Coolidge College began to die. The College is a drain financially and physically on the Law School. For the Law School to meet the ABA's requirements, the school is going to be forced to retain the money and land now used by the college. Since accreditation time is coming up soon, the Trustees have quietly notified the college students that CCC will...
...countering these problems which would squeeze the greatest educational benefit possible from Harvard's lecture system would be to start each semester with three weeks of reading period followed by an exam, and then embark on the lectures. Obviously this pattern would apply only to most(though not all) Humanities and Social Science courses and not to Natural Science courses, since these latter depend, peculiarily, on a gradual, step by step, accumulation of skills and knowledge...
...commission, warned that "the cost figure is relatively unimportant in terms of what we have to do in or der to save this country from the possibility of chaos." Nonetheless, with the Viet Nam war taking more than $2 billion monthly, Congress is in no mood to embark on an uncharted, unbudgeted program. "This is extravagant and unattainable," declared Texas Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "If you really got to tackling this thing, $100 billion wouldn't go very...
...trading nation far too long for its citizens to forget that devaluation sooner or later must hurt their pocketbooks by raising prices. Some unhappy Britons discovered that fact immediately. In Florence, British tourists who had bought their round-trip tickets in London before devaluation were not allowed to embark for home before paying an additional 14.3% to cover the pound's loss; at week's end 70 airlines agreed to increase by some 17% the price of airline tickets bought with pounds. A Scottish football team, traveling in Naples on a tight budget that became even tighter with...
...passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 to back him after U.S. ships exchanged fire with North Vietnamese gunboats. Although the Tonkin resolution authorized the President to "take all necessary measures" to "prevent further aggression," Johnson gave no indication until after the 1964 elections that he intended to embark on a policy of sharp escalation...