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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson Lodge, which has not accepted a sharp dichotomy between academic and social pursuits, has provided a haven for those who subscribe to Smith's indictment of the clubs. It encourages faculty members to dine there as often as possible, and has invited eight "faculty fellows" to become a kind of honorary member. By contrast, only two or three of the seventeen clubs have any "intellectual activities;" one of these, Cloister Inn, has invited Professor Stephen Bailey of the Politics Department to a discussion next week, but cases like this are sparse, and Princeton's clubs are a long...
...Department fails, the non-concentrator in its accomodations of the concentrator. Its policy of subdividing periods appears calculated to drives off the non-concentrators; these extremely limited courses are dry and historically incomplete because of a seemingly willful exclusion of major works in favor of secondary material, very often of little interest of merit. Elizabethan literature is now taught in three different courses: porse poetry, and drama; the Eighteenth Century receives as many, while such courses as "English Literature from 1603 to the Restoration, exclusive of Drama" can attract only the most esoteric of concentrators...
Philbrick asserted that though people often worry about the possibility of World War III, "we are in it right now, this very moment." The weapons are those of "diplomacy, trade and economics, religion, sabotage and espionage," he said, and "the war is being waged on every front every day by a ruthless and mighty enemy, which brags: 'we will bury...
Cash in the Till. Thornbrough temporarily shut down several U.S. plants, slashed prices of the company's products below cost to clear out inventories, get cash in the till quickly. He streamlined the company by merging the Ferguson and Massey-Harris distribution systems, which often competed with each other, into the new Massey-Ferguson Ltd. He put in tight inventory controls, raised salaries and bonuses of salesmen and branch managers to give them more incentive, brought in a crack young management team to push sales...
...Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China...