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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally had to give up the idea of explaining to his friend that a liberal education was making him a better man. Often he would seek to meet his friend on his own terms, and argue that a liberal education was preparing him better for his future job. He could always point out, for example, that business schools didn't give any special preference to economics majors as making the best businessmen, but selected those students who had done well in any field. And he had heard in the Navy that NROTC students, though initially at a disadvantage, generally caught...
...often tried good-naturedly to convince a doctor-in-training friend of his that he should be more liberally educated. But the doctor won every argument with the same triumphant question. "Vag," he would say. "Assume you are about to die, and only the most delicate operation can save you. Would you choose a doctor who knew his science thoroughly, or one could quote Plato to you?" And put in these terms Vag had to admit he would choose the lopsidedly scientific doctor...
...senior honors candidate can at least hope for a tutorial with a professor well-versed in his field. Not so in History and Lit., where (although a great majority of concentrators are honors candiates) most of the tutors are young instructors or graduate students, and where students are often assigned to a tutor with a different special field of interest than their...
...shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came in, said he'd been looking for a certain biography of John Greenleaf Whittier. Well, I had it. Mint condition, too--people don't browse through a book like that very often. He said he'd been hunting for the thing for three years. I told him he should have come to me--I've had it for thirty...
...pool of an estimated 15,000 patents which for years has given RCA a royalty percentage, e.g., an average 2% on radios, on almost every single product of its smaller rivals. To get an RCA license, the smaller makers had to pay for an entire package of patents which often contained items they did not need. But RCA, which earns an estimated $35 million annually from the pool, has long insisted that because its industry-leading research created most of the patents and continually creates more, it deserves a fair return...