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...other reform was the consolidation of the 15 freshman dorms into five units, each under a senior adviser and his staff of advisers. The old loose supervision of the two assistant deans is gone; in its place are five more closely knit bodies whose main function is advising. Where the whole freshman advising staff used to meet once at the beginning of the year, the unit staffs are now holding monthly meetings...
...classroom buildings--it already rents them to Harvard, and this fall could not even recover a room for the use of its its own new Institute. Indeed, Radcliffe is about ready to drop its simulation of a University and concentrate entirely on creating a tightly knit College which will have enough individuality to offer a distinctive education in a Harvard whose growing intensity threatened to swamp the 'Cliffe only a few years...
...Dean of Students sees the ideal Council as a closely knit group representing the Houses. "The present Council," according to Watson, "is an anachronism dating from before the time of the House Committees...
...popular nationalism, the European idea remained; and even if Europeans themselves at times forgot it, the rest of the world could not. For most of 2,000 years the culture, commerce and conquests of the peoples of Western Europe shaped the world's destinies. European traders and explorers knit the world, European armies subdued it, European adventurers settled it, European lawgivers pacified it, European artists and philosophers remade its esthetic norms. European artisans launched the Industrial Revolution, and European capital carried it to the ends of the earth...
Fulbright proposes an immediate start on a "concert of free nations'' that will knit more closely the Atlantic democracies, and those who would join them in a common goal. "This objective should be pursued as far as possible within the United Nations. In large measure, however, it must be pressed outside the U.N." With hearty approval, Fulbright cites Sir Anthony Eden's recent proposal that the Atlantic communities form a "political general staff," akin to the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II, to meet today's monolithic Communist threat. But Fulbright would carry...