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Walter A. Baker '58 of Kirkland House and Columbia, Ky., has won a Citizenship Award from the International Society of Christian Endeavor. A runner-up in the 1956 and 1957 contests, Baker's prize is $200 and a trip to the Society's New York Convocation. He is active in the Student Christian Movement and the Young Republican Club...
Aside from the immediate influence of his works on the field of letters, Kitteredge helped bring the public to think of scholarship as respectable endeavor, more than a pedant's ocupation. When it was remarked that Widener was "an elephant" among buildings in the yard, he countered, "What if it is? You could destroy all the other Harvard buildings to the northwest and, with Widener left standing, still have a University." For Kittredge, books were humanity recorded...
From the President's office went the order to begin. Legislation was prepared, calling for civilian control over the U.S. space program except in specific areas of military endeavor. Scientific space-administration would, in the plan, be handled by a new agency comprised of members, of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and other top civilian figures, under NACA Director Hugh L. Dryden. For a starter, the Defense Department laid aside $8,000,000 and started plans for the first series of lunar probes. The Army will undertake one, perhaps two, using modified Jupiter rockets; the Air Force, with...
...ideals for the University are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. The two, indeed, seem to me to go together. Any organization which introduces elements of social exclusiveness constitutes the worst possible soil for serious intellectual endeavor...Any organization that has the idea of exclusiveness at its foundation is antagonistic to the best training for citizenship in a democratic country...My conviction has been confirmed by everything that I have heard and inquired into, that the Clubs, as now organized, must go, or Princeton will cease to be an important element in University leadership in this country." --Thomas...
Neither of the girls had any previous business experience. "Our friends told us we were complete fools to try," Paula said. "It was difficult at first to convince solid, middle-class Americans that a new artistic endeavor could also be a financial success, but finally we got the backing we needed...