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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty for effective U.N. control of atomic energy. Said Austin: "If the Soviet Union is ready to perform these...
...Hemisphere is 5 ft. 5 in. tall, weighs 120 Ibs. and has black hair, sweeping black lashes and a mouth compared by one inspired limeño to the ace of hearts. She also is heiress to a fortune of 500 million soles (more than $32 million at the free exchange rate). Her maternal grandfather, Eulogio Fernandini, had a finger in almost every financial pie in the country and was known to his contemporaries as an ardent collector-of gold coins. After his death in 1947, tax assessors laboriously counted their way through two large antique coffers full of gold...
...place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course divisions-the social, physical and biological sciences, and the humanities. Since students differed in ability, Chicago decided that they should be free to attend class or not and to go as fast as they wanted. All they had to do was to pass a set of broad examinations given, not by the teachers, but by a board of examiners. Thereupon, on the basis of achievement rather than "time-serving," Chicago decided they should...
Education by the fireside or over a glass of sherry always was the idea behind the House Plan. But that free and easy give and take between professor and student has, like all good ideas, often fallen into disuse. Like all good ideas, though, it has a way of persisting and coming to life every so often...