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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French who first proposed the German general. With the first five West German divisions due to join NATO forces this year, they saw that the Germans would be entitled to fill some of the higher spots in NATO's chain of command. Having pulled out most of their own NATO troops to fight in Algeria, leaving only about a division behind, they were also aware that they could claim few top NATO posts for themselves. Accordingly, when two of their generals vacated NATO commands last year, the French suggested that a German be named com mander of NATO...
...only the big-name colleges, mostly in the East, have really felt the first impact of the great tidal wave. Though the number of high-school students who go on to college has jumped from 15% in 1940 to 40%, the nation's 1,800 institutions of higher learn ing can still keep up with the demand. But what of the years immediately ahead? By the time the present crop of first-graders is ready for college, says Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. of Yale, en rollments may soar to between...
Brighter & Brighter. By piling up the total number of applications, the ghosts tend to distort the demand for higher education. But the demand is nevertheless there-and it has already begun to change the whole sociology of U.S. higher education. With more and more students to choose from, the big-name campuses are becoming more and more selective. At Harvard the number of students on the dean's list has gone up from 27% before World War II to nearly 40%. Indeed, says Amherst Dean of Freshmen Eugene...
...high school. But in such states as Oregon, where junior col leges are rare, many educators have begun to worry about what the tidal wave of students will do to their schools unless admissions standards go up. "It seems to me," says Chancellor John Richards of the state higher education system, "that if the weight of numbers of students threatens college instructional quality, then it is our clear obligation to control the numbers." Adds President Jean Paul Mather of the University of Massachusetts, which is studying a plan to consider only the top 20% of state high-school students...
Goodbye, Loafer.No matter how much U.S. higher education expands or how many junior colleges the nation builds, there will still be casualties, because the admissions standards of most colleges are bound to keep rising. But to Headmaster Lloyd M. Clark of Pennsylvania's Kis kiminetas Springs School, the big competition for education is not a crisis but a cause for rejoicing. "This change at the admissions office," says he, "has altered the atmosphere all over the campus. In the classrooms the professors can insist on high achievement levels and dismiss the loafer . . . The time has come when the college...