Word: non
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the non-Honors students, however, the CEP found a "significant group" whose interest the Departments ought to "engage." While such students "typically aim neither at scholarly study nor at later professional accomplishment in their field of concentration," said the CEP report, Departments can interest them in aspects of their field which "touch them as men and as members of a community...
...report failed to specify the details of such a program, and did not outline how it could be effected. Instead, it simply said that "each Department shall endeavor to provide a program of courses particularly suited to the needs and interests of the non-Honors concentrator, in terms of both subject matter and mode of instruction...
When the Faculty voted on May 6, the CEP had eliminated even this pious hope, and its final report stated that "no department is required to provide tutorial instruction" for non-Honors juniors. This fall, however, Dean Monro took an active concern "on behalf of the whole College," and suggested a voluntary, graded half-course running throughout the year "as part of the communications network between the student and his House...
...rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions are concerned: "Our members will refuse to honor lines set up for organizational or recognition purposes. But in primary strikes, other unions will have to indemnify us against loss if they want our support...
...ruthlessness of Red China's behavior made a wreckage of some cherished convictions. There was no longer confidence that 1) Asian solidarity, created at the Bandung Conference, would outlaw the use of force, 2) Indian neutrality and nonalignment with "military blocs" would gradually lead the Communist and non-Communist worlds to mutual understanding, 3) the repeated pledges of "peaceful coexistence" by Peking meant that Red China was worthy of joining the U.N. The national disillusionment was so great that even Prime Minister Nehru took off his rose-colored glasses, looked hard at his giant neighbor to the north...