Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surface, the Beck Junior bearing seemed just as depressing as any other Teamster hearing but there was more to it than met the ear; Lawyer John McClellan, nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate...
Princeton has met the problem by requiring real competence in either a foreign language or in mathematics, and something along this line might be put in here, though there seems to be little current demand for more math instruction. Or the requirement might just be raised, on both the placement tests and the level of course to be passed. At least one year of a foreign literature might be demanded...
...that Harvard has grown by 24 per cent since 1940. The problems involved are acknowledged to be great, but they have been faced and solved before. If, as Pusey has said, "today's Harvard College is the strongest Harvard College yet achieved," the challenge of expansion can surely be met once more...
...terms of actual requirements, he observed, the University was even more lenient. While the implicit expectation of high grades could make many students intensely anxious about their inattention to their studies, the actual requirements could be met with almost no effort by anybody actually admitted to the University...
Hopefully the professor will be encouraged to improve his lectures and to spend more time with his undergraduates. He and his instructors and teaching fellows have not fully met the present demand. They will find it more difficult to meet the future situation unless they make a concerted and conscious attempt to solve present failings.ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, Jr., took a year off to write for Adlai Stevenson in the last campaign...