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Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, who in 1945 rode out of the West (the philosophy department of the University of Wisconsin) and, Lochinvar-like, captured the hearts of blue-jeaned undergraduates as the nation's youngest (30) college president. Handsome Harold Taylor skied, played tennis, taught classes at Manhattan...
The university's overseas base, twelve miles from Stuttgart, is a rarity-other American colleges and universities let their undergraduates study abroad, but -few have foreign campuses-and Stanford is well pleased with the project. Because classes in such subjects as political science, art history and philosophy are conducted...
Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, agreed with Haertlein that it is mainly "marginal students" who leave the engineering field. Of approximately 20 College engineering majors who entered other areas this year, not one was a Dean's List student, he stated.
However, there has been a 10 per cent decline in new engineering majors, "which may or may not be alarming," Brooks observed. If this trend is really nationwide, "the situation could be serious, insofar as it represents a loss of talented people. In the present shortage of skilled technological men...
Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B...