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...high mountains and deserts of Central Asia and thus isolated throughout most of its history, preserving a continuity of development in the same area over some three or four thousand years, during most of which time the Chinese state had been a unified entity. As we might expect, this biggest, most isolated and distinctive, most long continued culture and society developed a strong tendency to look inward, an attitude of ethnocentrism or Sinocentrism, China being the center of the known world and of civilization, the non-Chinese being peripheral and inferior, China being superior to all foreign regions...
Sources in the Yale administration said Sunday that it was fair to expect a careful examination of the need for, and feasibility of, a "co-ordinate" women's school, similar to the Harvard-Radcliffe system. However, they stressed that Brewster has not yet decided the scope and form of the investigation...
University officials expect that auditors will ask to see detailed records showing the time spent on federal projects by "non-professional" staff and the percentage of "effort" committed by the "professionals"--primarily professors, instructors, research associates, and graduate students...
...town, students would be competing with each other for money--and bankers naturally would lend money, to the better business risk, denying funds to the neediest. Brademas argued last week that it was unreasonable to expect bankers to lend $1000 to a family whose mortgage the bank was foreclosing. "And could a Negro ask a loan of a white banker in a Southern town?" Brademas asked. "He would be lucky if he was able to walk in the front door," he said...
Drury seems to expect that his fictional enclave will be taken as a micro cosm of the world-or, as he puts it in his frightful prose-"an easygoing, wisecracking, self-centred distillation of all the busy bright uncaring of the world." Hardly...