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Yale's president emeritus, Charles Seymour, however, took issue with the News, calling Plan B, "bold and far reaching; but it is nonetheless evolutionary in its nature. This is true despite the fact that the committee has utilized the experience of other institutions as well as its own imagination. My own personal feelings, and judgment," said Seymour, "run entirely in favor of the bolder Plan B. It calls for numerous adjustment to present practice and teaching methods. It would have to be set up within the circle of financial possibilities. Individual departments and professors would have to merge their apparent...
With such attractions, the Institute has no trouble finding prospective members. To quote from the list of past members is blatant name-dropping: T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee, Felix Frankfurter. Albert Einstein is a professor emeritus; George Kennan, recently returned to the Institute from Moscow; and the Director since 1947 has been Robert Oppenheimer, previously famed for his work in atomic energy...
...years of training, but does he get a well-rounded education? This week, in the first comprehensive report of premedical education in the U.S., three eminent deans-Aura E. Severinghaus, associate dean of Columbia University's faculty of medicine, William E. Cadbury Jr. of Haverford and Dean Emeritus Harry Carman of Columbia College-gave their answer: "No." As far as the liberal arts are concerned, says the report, the pre-med is shortchanged...
Kelso had another exclusive on the appointment of President-Emeritus James B. Conant as High Commissioner to Germany last February. Compare the Post articles on the confirmation of Conant with the regular Associated Press stories, and you will find the AP's lead often buried in the fifteenth or sixteenth paragraphs of the Post. The Post deemed significant the fact that "Conant appeared to be talking nervously over the phone" after appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The day the AP reported Conant's confirmation virtually certain, the Post headlined PROTESTS MOUNT OVER CONANT, and Kelso predicted the fury...
...plan of the inauguration will follow closely the short and simple ceremony used by John Leverett in 1707, and copied by President-emeritus James Byrant Conant...