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...harm in anyone liking to build dams and wharfs; they are just as necessary in Turkey as they are in the U.S. For the first time we have a Prime Minister [Adnan Menderes-April 23] with initiative, who thinks of the future, and your magazine never misses a chance to pick on him. If Mr. Adnan Menderes had waited for his safes to be overloaded with cash before he started acting, stagnancy, which has been Turkey's misfortune in the past centuries, would have continued and prevented any improvement. Turkey needs more and more American...
...other hand, drinking is no more immoral at eighteen than at twenty-one. And there is little reason to believe that eighteen year-olds would have less self-control than a (hypothetical) inexperienced man of twenty-one. It seems strange that eighteen year-olds who drink without any observable harm in New York should acquire a more delicate constitution in Massachusetts...
Although confusion of objectives does not overly harm the freshman since he must consult with concentration field representatives, sophomores and juniors might well benefit from thought and talk about their programs for the year to come. If the Administrative Board required students to meet with their tutors, rather than to list courses, it would make its objectives clear to students unaccustomed to administrators' subtle and indirect strategems. Lazy students and lazy tutors would continue to evade the requirement, but to the majority it would be clear what was wanted. About the only thing the board would lose is income from...
Though frustrated of popular success, B. & K. had managed to leave behind an impressive demonstration of the strength and technical achievement of Russia itself. They had failed miserably at conveying the impression of likable old fellows who meant no harm and who had never killed anybody in their lives. In the testing place of a free society, the Kremlin's dictators had been subjected to a cold, revealing light of exposure...
After three years of practice in the Providence firm of Tillinghast and Collins, Chafee returned to Harvard to teach civil rights in the Law School. Among his first students were such incipient barristers as Dean Acheson, Joseph N. Welch, and Archibald MacLeish. Chafee hopes his lectures "did they no harm." Since 1919 Chafee, in the capacity of full professor, has preached the primacy of the First Amendment, its defense and its preservation...