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Despite his pessimism, Griswold is hopeful that "the service-station concept of the university" may pass. "Some people in many of our state universities," he notes, are at least trying to reassert "the original and timeless philosophical claims of liberal education." But much less hopeful is the appended "comment" by Robert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago and now head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. As an example of "crude pressure and bribery," Hutchins cites Michigan State's "four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major...
...resigned as armed forces chief of staff, and a communiqué in his own handwriting said that he had boarded the Angelita and sailed for Europe. At week's end Secretary of State Rusk announced worriedly: "It appears that [Héctor and Arismendi] may be planning to reassert dictatorial domination. In view of the possibility of political disintegration, the Government of the U.S. is considering further measures." Rusk's aides added that the U.S. would act unilaterally outside the framework of the OAS if necessary. Presumably, the further measures that Rusk was talking about were military...
...luxury is increasingly based not on goods but on service. Tipping seeks to buy that feeling -usually in vain. In crowded restaurants, in huge, barracks-like apartment buildings, at the mercy of deliverymen or repairmen, in dozens of other situations that make the individual powerless, he seeks feebly to reassert himself through tipping...
Communists Compete. For six years after the Communists took power in China, Peking was too busy and too poor to try to reassert China's influence over its ancient colony and onetime conqueror...
...Bundy's successor will enjoy an almost unparalleled opportunity to channel undergraduate teaching in old or new directions, with or without major expenses. He can continue the trend toward academic specialization, which has made the College a prep school for graduate study, reassert the purposes of General Education, or choose from a variety of other courses. Many specific changes aimed toward greater curricular flexibility can enhance the quality of undergraduate education without involving large sums of money...