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...high hopes that, in addition to providing general training in the languages and affairs of the Middle East, we could initiate significant new studies in the history and culture of these countries. It is a great satisfaction that the Aga Khan's interest will enable us to expand the work being done in this important field and to put it on a secure, permanent basis...
...members of the Columbia faculty agreed with decision to expand. "It would be awfully hard to have the College both bigger and better," said Boris M. Standfield, associate professor of Economics, "and if a choice has to be made, I would choose better...
...stimulate thinking" in a high-level conference with a foundation executive, the idea that Harvard should found a "colony college" met with initial enthusiam. As conceived by its imaginative sponsors, "Harvard in Houston" would be a good way for the University to discharge any obligation it might feel to expand, while maintaining and improving its existing facilities in Cambridge. The vision, they say, was one of a New Canaan, of the kind of institution that George Ade once said could give a man "everything that Harvard does, except the pronunciation of a as in father...
...conservatism is often criticized as a materialistic philosophy. On the other hand, argue thoughtful businessmen, the most hopeful achievement of the U.S. economy has been to free men and women from soul-destroying drudgery and want, raise educational levels, expand leisure time for the enrichment of self and society. Says Sears, Roebuck Chairman Theodore V. Houser: "As we have prospered and grown in an economic sense, we have also grown in the direction of achieving the goals the great religious and moral leaders have long envisaged for the great masses of people...
...currently higher than it has been in 50 years, its rise has not been accompanied by any increase in rainfall. The scientists' best guess: the underground reservoir of water into which the lake's waters have apparently been draining is now filled, and Chad will continue to expand until it finds a new subterranean outlet. By last week, the scientists noted happily, the waters of the Bahr el Ghazal were already approaching their historic banks and irrigating lands uncultivated for generations...