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...exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed by the Summer News, all the respondents voiced approval of their courses, far higher percentage than Confidential Guide polls reveal. The small classes and informal lectures are to a great extent responsible for this, and most members...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: A Critique of the Summer School: Despite Some Faults, it Spreads its Bit of Veritas | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...problem of keeping the Federal Government within its budget is as complicated as the Einstein theory plus Parkinson's Law. But the simple arithmetic that Budget Director Maurice Stans put on the public blackboard last week showed that the problem is getting well out of hand. The fiscal year is only 2j months old, but the budget is already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Elementary Arithmetic | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Among Marshall's demands were reducing free entry privileges for U. S. "missionaries" in the East, omitting propaganda exalting ourselves, and finally "repealing Parkinson...

Author: By Stephen B. Farber, | Title: Education, Security Conferences Mark Week | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

...Northcote Parkinson, Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya and author of the satiric Parkinson's Law, will speak this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Burr B (not in Lamont Forum Room as previously announced). His topic: "Parkinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parkinson, Skinner To Lecture Today | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...following day, C. Northcote Parkinson will deliver the first lecture in the Thursday afternoon series on "Parkinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Members, Poets Schedule Series of Public Talks, Readings | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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