Word: ferments
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...institution which has consistently succeeded in producing such graduates. Undergraduate specialization is even greater than at Harvard, and the colleges must play an important role in general education. Chalmers feels that the Harvard Houses should serve a similar function; to this end he has acted to increase intellectual ferment within Winthrop. One feels he would be entirely happy if Winthrop could resemble Balliol or Oriel in the days when Jowett and Whately walked the earth--sanctums where living and learning were inseparable and where student-faculty dialogue constituted the most exciting part of an undergraduate's career...
Tourists rarely see either the intellectual ferment or the burgeoning industry of the East-the steam-wreathed polyethylene plant at Rumanian Ploesti; the scorching debate over Camus at Budapest's Hungaria Restaurant; the clanking Skoda automobile factory outside Prague; the student jazz joint in Warsaw where frugging and free verse give the lie to socialist realism. This is also the domain of the Western businessman, of the 500 Western firms which are engaged in cooperative ventures worth $800 million in Eastern Europe, and which will do many times that amount of business in the years ahead...
...Toward Ferment. Whether Missouri now moves into the top rank of public universities will depend largely on John Carrier Weaver, 50, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculties at Ohio State, who will succeed Ellis next August. Son of a former speech department chairman at the University of Wisconsin, Weaver holds a Ph.D. in geography from Wisconsin and has spent most of his career in Midwestern public universities, including Minnesota, Kansas State, Nebraska and Iowa. These schools, he insists, represent "the full flowering of the public land-grant concept-education, research and service combined...
...university's prime reason for being" and that "what really matters in higher education is individual young people and their individual minds." A teacher's aim, he argues, is "to produce disquiet, make students question dogma. Good education doesn't produce stability. It should produce ferment." Under Weaver, the lowly undergrad is not likely to be forgotten, and the ferment is already going...
...have to ferment all the faster these days, now that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is closing the circulation gap-370,499 for the Plain Dealer to 370,759 for the Press. As a morning paper, the Plain Dealer has a built-in advantage over the afternoon Press with its tougher distribution problems. And on top of that, the Plain Dealer has been picking up spark from Publisher Tom Vail, 39, who is running some stinging and effective exposes and crisp editorials. Vail has hired 33 new editorial staffers in the past year alone...