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Universities for Peace. "Many nations, though their cultures are ancient and rich, do not possess the resources to spread the needed education throughout their populations. But they can wisely use help that respects their traditions and ways." Proposed Ike: universities for peace, to be set up by U.S. universities and philanthropic foundations to help each nation "develop its human and natural resources. [But] in no respect should the purpose of these institutions be to transplant into new areas the attitudes, the forms, the procedures of America...
...married minority of the senior faculty. Those with aged parents or other dependents may be just as "needy" as the family men, and even if they supported no one but themselves, it would seem that they ought to qualify for more money on the supposition that they possess as much "excellence" as any married professor...
...Houses have tutorial systems and all the Houses have resident staffs, but nowhere does this system seem to possess such vitality as at Kirkland. The weekly staff dinners consistently draw a large crowd, with 35 to 40 an average figure. "They really keep me hopping here," Professor Taylor was once overheard to remark. And they...
...sets Friedberg was after had to possess an infinite number of distinct properties. But in the construction of the sets, the assigning of one property often interfered with the assigning of another. Friedberg overcame the difficulty by arranging the properties in a priority list and resolving all interferences in favor of the properties standing higher on the list. After four months, he found the two sets he was looking for. Though laymen could hardly be expected to appreciate the virtues of his solution, his seniors in the field were dazzled. One professor at the University of California asked to include...
Harvard students possess the brains, no doubt about that. But they should wake up to the fact that they are living in a civilized world, and they should possess a bit of common sense and have some respect for the rights of others who are trying their hardest to get along peacefully in this city. Thomas C. Haley