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...traditional schools-Leacock's own McGill University in Montreal, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
Writing in Commentary, William Phillips nai's the whole genre by devastatingly describing Burroughs' Nova Express as "the feeding almost literally of human flesh and organs on each other in an orgy of annihilation. The whole world is reduced to the fluidity of excrement as everything dissolves into everything else." And Critic John Wain adds: "A pornographic novel is, in however backhanded a way, on the side of something describable as life. Naked Lunch, by contrast, is unreservedly on the side of death...
...Celebration in association with the Department for Romance Languages and Literatures will present a series of lectures in commemoration of the seventh centennial of Dante's birth. Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, will speak Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall on "Stil Nuovo, Ars Nova." Also speaking in the series will be Gianfranco Contini, of the University of Florence and Umberto Bosco, of the University of Rome...
...touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept him in command was his almost messianic popularity in the western prairie provinces and the lack of a serious challenger. Conservatives in the industrialized eastern provinces would much rather see Manitoba's able Premier Dufferin Roblin or Nova Scotia's Premier Robert Stanfield in charge of the party...
...five o'clock talk before a large audience in Holmes Hall, Rockefeller reported that during an interview with Premier Khrushchev in Moscow last summer, "Khrushchev made it clear that communism would one day sweep the world." The Soviet leader pointed to Nova G. Rockefeller '66, who was accompanying her father, and said "One day she will think...