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Accustomed to simply learning what the teacher says, the Freshman often does not accept intellectual responsibility in college, Monro said. The Dean claimed that large lecture courses are deceiving, in this respect, since they give the student the impression that he need do no more than digest the material in lectures or required reading...
Monro added that students not only fail often to think for themselves, but also fail to discover that this process is "fun." He praised the teaching methods of David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences. Using his "Chicago method," Riesman conducts panel discussions in class and encourages his students to analyze their cultural environment...
Further economies still can be effected throughout the entire H.A.A. For example, sweatshirts, baseballs, and other pieces of equipment often are "lost" by players during the season. Airline transportation to rained-out baseball games is an avoidable expense. Two encouraging moves in this direction were the across-the-board slash in all teams' budgets last June and reports written this year by varsity captains suggesting new economies...
...difficulty was that this moral and economic desire to Americanize the world often ran against the wishes of the people concerned and against the principle of self-determination with which the United States had long identified itself. With the post-war rise of anti-colonial nationalism in Asia and Africa, Williams argues, the policy of American economic expansion has proved more and more useless...
...Adenauer switch is especially significant for it comes at a time when external crisis adds to the import of internal transition. As has been so often the case with Germany, developments in foreign affairs will strongly condition domestic politics...