Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nucleus of a Dream. Michigan State hopes to get to the goal by developing a top-drawer liberal arts college to match its excellent technical schools. Oakland has the plant and the men for a good start. Most of the sweeping 2,000-acre campus was given to M.S.U. two years ago by the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. Value of the land and the 125-room Wilson mansion: about $15 million. When the Wilsons added another $2,000,000 to the gift, astute M.S.U. President John Hannah appointed Vice President Durward...
...east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime Marine Corps aviator, laid out his goal: to teach the art of living as well as pure knowledge. Said he to M.S.U.Oakland's first 500 students (all freshmen): "What is success? What is good? What do I want? Where am I going? You are in college to seek answers to those questions, and the first thing to discover is that there are no pat answers...
...just past the age of eleven, except for those headed for the public schools such as Eton or Harrow. The exam (English composition, arithmetic, an IQ test) ruthlessly splits youngsters into three groups. The top 20% go to respected pre-university grammar schools; the mechanically minded 4% go to good technical schools. The rest are packed off to low-status secondary modern schools, many convinced that they are failures. The effect is to demoralize the whole system...
...picture-window gallery. Beaverbrook's favorite ("because I like it") is Gainsborough's Peasant Girl Gathering Faggots, but he also cherishes his own portrait, painted by Great Britain's Graham Sutherland. "Many people see it as a caricature," says Beaverbrook, "but I think it is a good likeness...
...reasonably reliable Atlas as their first stage. Highest U.S. hopes are pinned at present on an Atlas-boosted job intended to whip around the moon and transmit a picture of its mysterious backside-a feat considerably more difficult than simply hitting it. Its timing may not be so good as that of Lunik II, which hit the moon just before Khrushchev's arrival in the U.S. (just a lucky break, said Khrushchev). But the U.S. moon shot's target date is early October-just before President Eisenhower is scheduled to visit Russia...