Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suburban Belleville, N.J. used to talk things over with Yves Tommy-Martin, a Fulbright scholar from France, while both were students at Amherst College. They continued to talk of one big adventure before settling down to careers when Armstrong turned up in Paris on his own Fulbright to do research in Chinese literature at the Sorbonne. Soon, they had enlisted two more companions-another Frenchman, Jean Pillu, 25, and another American, Donald Shannon, 28, of Milwaukee. Their ambition: to drive the 8,500 road miles from Paris to Johannesburg...
...should not," said Columnist Lippmann, "shrink from the idea that such a network would have to be subsidized and endowed . . . Why should it not be subsidized and endowed as are the universities and the public schools and the exploration of space and modern medical research, and indeed the churches-and so many other institutions which are essential to a good society, yet cannot be operated for profit? . . . Among [the mass communications media] there must be some which aim not at popularity and profit but at excellence and the good life...
...supplement to research, students get new perspectives on their topic from prominent guest speakers. For the Conference on American inflation, the School has invited Arthur Burns (former Economic Advisor to the President), the chief lawyer for David McDonald's Steelworkers Union, and Senator Clark of Pennsylvania. In coordinating top-flight outside speakers with its academic program, the Woodrow Wilson School sets an example which might be followed with profit in Harvard College...
...last year's seniors, three-fifths plan to study law and were admitted to Harvard Law School. But the School's program, while it requires some research similar to law school work, deals with broad questions, not with specific cases and precedents; and it utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach, not a body of jurisprudence. Out of a class of 45, 12 plan graduate study in such fields as business, Soviet studies, and journalism...
...provide the student with a "kit of tools," and "in matters relevant to his work, it seeks to teach him some of what is known, how to find more of what is known, and to be search in "what is not known" is not known." But advanced scholarly research in "what is not known is not the concern of these graduate students, who are future "men of affairs...