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...atmosphere from its top better than surface-bound men can study it from its bottom. It can also observe meteors as they arrive from space, including the swarming "micro-meteors" that may be a serious obstacle to long-range space voyaging. These tiny, swift particles are believed to exert a powerful effect on the earth's weather, and they are almost impossible to observe from "down deep in the atmosphere...
...also does something to the opposition's morale. Russell's breaking out of nowhere to stretch out a ham hand and ruin a sure basket can take the heart out of the best players around. Once he got warmed up, he and his teammates hardly had to exert themselves last week to gobble up Loyola (65-55) and St. Mary's (69-48) on successive nights...
...members of specialized, non-physical sports, however, such as riflery and sailing, do not exert the same athletic effort as does a football player. Thus they do not deserve the same recognition. These presently minor sports would have to forfeit this status and remain organized as clubs. Already several actual sports, such as cricket and rugby, are, because of their limited nature, only clubs. In return for this sacrifice, the H.A.A. should continue its services to these activities, such as scheduling their meets. The physical sports which are still "minor" should in turn raise their letter-awarding requirements to equal...
...financial success. Calling attention to the increasing dependence by universities on "government and business for the sustenance they must have to keep alive," he warned, nevertheless, that educational institutions must transcend their environment so that they may be critics of it. Industry, he held, should not attempt to exert control over educational policies, no matter what its financial contribution...
...universities. Nevertheless, underlying much of it, is the assumption that the general education provided by the independent liberal arts university is only a means to industry's financial well-being. There is a latent danger in this assumption, as Mr. Pusey has recognized, that business will begin to exert control over university policies. Such attempts are not unknown; often in the past wealthy alumni have attempted to mold educational policy. With greater university dependence today on corporation gifts, the threat of similar attempts grows. Already business is exerting an unexpressed, but very real pressure on colleges. Mr. Pusey...