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Occidental College is an oak-and-eucalyptus oasis of Italian Renaissance buildings dotting a green hillside on the northeastern fringe of hurly-burly Los Angeles. Its campus is small (120 acres), and- so is its coed student body (1,400). When the Ford Foundation bestowed its massive manna on liberal...
Among West Coast educators, the answer is simple. In a state long dominated by huge public colleges. Occidental has parlayed smallness. smart leadership and intellectual freedom into a warm, friendly spirit, first-rate teaching, and a taste for the experimental. Once considered to be a preserve for academically delicate youth...
Lord of the Flies is required reading at a hundred U.S. colleges, is on the list of suggested summer reading for freshmen entering colleges from Occidental to Williams. At Harvard it is recommended for a social-relations course on "interpersonal behavior." An M.I.T. minister uses it for a discussion group...
"The spiritual capacity--or lack of it--in Occidental, industrial man" is Western society's basic concern, Pusey said, stressing that "what Harvard wants more than anything now to give our country and the world is educated men--and women--of character."
Arriving in Japan, Auer called on two recent cover subjects, Ambassador Edwin Reischauer and Industrialist Konosuke Matsushita. Now experiencing what other cover subject have gone through, Matsushita joked that "for the next month I'll set aside five minutes a day to sign TIME covers." Auer visited Matsushita'...