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General stiffening of curriculum seems a more practical suggestion. "Too many people turn away from science and engineering in college because they feel so unprepared in math and basic science," Grayson Kirk observed. "Given opportunities for choice, children may take easier subjects...
...Americans were in no mood for applauding the nation's schools and colleges. Stunned into sudden-and at times, hysterical-awe of Soviet science, they could scarcely find words harsh enough to say about themselves or their campuses. "Throughout the entire country," noted Columbia University's President Grayson Kirk, "the subject of education has moved out of the quiet of the classroom into the arena of bitter controversy...
...group of Albuquerque science teachers, "generally fail to counsel their children on school courses, and they have a get-by philosophy of their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student finds only boredom in a class where the intellectual level is pitched to the duller students. Many will even conceal their capacities and knowledge because . . . they are intimidated by the anti-intellectualism that dominates so many classes...
...become Columbia's most cherished hero since Sid Luckman was tossing passes at Baker Field. While his colleagues beam in admiring good will, President Grayson Kirk sings his praises as "an able and exciting teacher," the Graduate English Department information desk bears the legend "Only Charles Van Doren Knows All the Answers." and his students decorate the blackboard with such questions as "For $52,500, what did Plato mean by Justice?" At St. John's, where only two faculty members deign to own TV sets, President Richard Weigle went to a neighborhood bar to catch last week...
President Grayson L. Kirk of Columbia University was elected vice-chairman of the 25-member board for the next year...