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Some members of the scientific establishment have seen these drug researches as a psychological danger in another sense: they undermine the scientific attitude and approach to the rigorous, controlled study of behavior. One studies behavior, they say, by isolating interesting facets of it in a laboratory and seeing how these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drugs and the University | 2/14/1963 | See Source »

Whatmough, who is 65, has been head of the Department since it was created in 1951. A firm believer in rigorous, "scientific" linguistics, he built up the Department from its predecessor, the loosely organized department of Comparative Philology.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics Dept. Head Whatmough to Retire | 1/21/1963 | See Source »

A.S.P.A.U.'s success is based not only on rigorous selection but also on ample financial support for deserving winners. African countries pay transportation; other help comes from U.S. foundations. Full tuition scholarships averaging $1,000 a year are provided by U.S. campuses. Room and board averaging $1,800 a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Straight-A Africans | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Usually the gates slam on an Ivy applicant who scores below 550 in the test (scored from 200 to 800), but last year Columbia experimentally took a chance on 72 hopefuls who had done just that. Coleman happily reports that 69 of them passed Columbia's most highly verbal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Imperfect Test | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

And in place of professional politicians (before De Gaulle, all ministers had to have seats in the Assembly) De Gaulle has brought into his Cabinet a new covey of experts, many of them young (five are 40 or under), whose versatility and expertise constitute a Seine-side New Frontier. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Vocation for Grandeur | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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