Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honorary degrees were awarded to thirteen men and women this morning, at the University's 308th Commencement. Only one foreign nation was represented in the presentations, and degrees went to six educators, a pair of religious leaders, and two top-level diplomats...
...offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...
...core of the University is its courses and its Faculty. "Some of the attitudes and ideas presented to students are attractive. A professor who implants these ideas can be of great influence on the future of students," says Zigmond. Sometimes when a foreign idea is presented, a student studies it, learns it and absorbs it; other times he studies it learns it and rebels from...
...Class of '59 did equally well four years after admission in receiving grants for foreign and domestic study. Members of '59 received 32 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, two Marshall Scholarships, one Fiske, at least 13 Fulbrights, and five Rhodes Scholarships. Thirty-two Rhodes Scholars are selected each year from all over the United States. This year Harvard received more Rhodes Scholarships than any other college in the country except West Point, which also received five. '59 received more Rhodes Scholarships than any class in the history of Harvard...
Some European brokers grumble that the invasion of Yankee shareholders is pushing prices dangerously high. A few major Swiss manufacturers, notably Nestle and Aluminium Industrie A.G.. have attempted to stem the foreign tide by registering their shares so that the company can accept or reject bids to buy. But the broad majority of European capitalists heartily hold out hands in welcome to the U.S. investor. "The more investment the better," says a top Zurich financier. "We in the West are politically and economically in the same boat. The closer we are connected, the stronger we shall...