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...since the floor days of Lyndon Johnson and, for a brief while, the fitful reign of Oklahoma's late Democratic Senator Robert Kerr, has the U.S. Senate had anything close to a king. But now moving toward that position is a most unlikely person: Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, a politician of many ups and downs and backs and forths, whose only present power lever is that of leader of an underwhelming minority of 33 Republicans...
...Pressure. The facts of life at the great universities, says California's Clark Kerr, who runs one, are that "undergraduate students are restless, and parents think their children are being sacrificed on the altar of research." To some extent, they are. Private and Government research grants have speeded the output of badly needed Ph.D.s, but in the process, undergraduate teaching has been sadly neglected...
...Brewster said. It might even train volunteers for the Peace Corps or give harried students a year off to ponder their future. More important, though, Yale will remain geared to its smallish, liberal arts college-unlike Harvard with its proliferation of special research units, or the "multiversity" of Clark Kerr's California. "Even the pressure to serve the state," Brewster said, "must not lead the university to forfeit that credibility which belongs alone to those who answer only to the dictates of a conscientious intellect...
President Pusey, who along with Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, also spoke at the installation, emhasized that Harvard and Yale are no longer almost alone as leaders of American education. He said that the number of first-rate universities is now approaching two dosen, and is growing rapidly
Recent lecturers have included President Clark Kerr of the University of California, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York State, Gov. Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico, James B. Conant '14, and C.P. Snow...