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...vast as its pride. Once the source of the greatest colonial empire since the days of the Romans, it has only with reluctance adapted to an age in which empire has withered-and with it much of the commercial power of a nation that must live by trade or perish. This year has been unkind for Britain; the Labor Party's victory has only served to accentuate problems that the defeated Conservatives had struggled with for months. The pound has been put in peril, confidence in Britain's ability to adjust to the demands...
...brains," says President Eliahu Elath, a noted Orientalist and former Israeli Ambassador to Washington and Lon don. "This university must help pre serve that quality or else we are lost." Students and faculty have a sense of direction that most U.S. colleges would find awesome. Professors publish or perish on the theory, bluntly stated by Humanities Dean Joshua Prawer, that "where there is a choice between a good scholar or a good teacher, we will always take the scholar." The average freshman is 21 years old and-whether man or woman-an army veteran. Students prefer chess to soccer...
...extraordinary people, it was the adventurer Casanova and the swindler Cagliostro who raised deception to a way of life and a high art; Machiavelli who made it a cardinal principle of statecraft; while Mussolini was by no means the first Italian leader to perish finally believing the deceptions he had himself created. At the start, Barzini thinks, Mussolini "watched him self playing the great role he was invent ing as gusto," he but went over the along, years he hamming at it began to with believe the stirring show and the lies and flattery, came to read his own news...
Judged and found guilty by the hard law of "publish or perish" (TIME, April 24), Woodrow Wilson Sayre perished last week as assistant philosophy professor at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He took his case, that eloquent classroom teaching is as worthy a trait in a professor as scholarship proved by publication, to a committee of his faculty peers - who concluded that "it is not at all evident" that Professor Sayre's teaching "outshines that of his colleagues." The school then dropped his contract. Sayre got several job offers almost at once - but thinks he will first settle down...
...time has come, I think, for a statement in support of research activities at our universities. Implied in your article about "publish or perish" is that teaching and research are basically incompatible. I believe that research is teaching. No subject or course content can be static today precisely because of the broad research under way in all fields. An educator can better carry out his obligations by challenging and rebutting concepts of dubious value in writing. The cloistered classroom offers no proper audience for professional discourse because the arguments...