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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate schools--the Behavioral Sciences Report is a recent example. Now, it seems, they should devote a major effort to solve these two problems. Continued pressure on state legislatures and funds given to raise the endowments of private colleges are the only steps that will raise the overall scale of faculty salaries. For the immediate problems of the graduate student, possibly extended smaller grants, instead of the large one-year fellowships, might be more effective. Another possible partial solution is a system of loans given by the foundations which can grant longer terms and take greater risks than the universities...
Harvard should not abandon the junior year program merely because of Sweet briar's ineffectiveness. Instead, it should set up a program of its own--not a vast system of advisers and special libraries, but a small-scale plan enabling highly qualified students to study abroad on their own. Detailed Harvard examinations on return would provide more of a check than Sweet briar's regulations, which treat all juniors as juveniles...
...first time, Menotti turned from small-scale, small-cast operas, such as The Consul, and created a full-scale Italian-style opera, used a large chorus and a 56-piece orchestra (he worked on it for a year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly...
...four: 1) motion-the passing from power to act-implies an unmoved Mover; 2) similarly, there must be an uncaused First Cause that possesses in itself the reason for its existence; 3) the existence of beings whose nonexistence is possible implies the existence of a necessary Being; 4) the scale of perfections evident in the universe implies the existence of an absolute standard, a perfect Being...
...anywhere in the world. Said General Electric's President Ralph Cordiner: "By 1976, half of all new electric-power installations will be atomic." The changes came almost too fast to be counted. Westinghouse and Duquesne Light started work for the Government on the nation's first full-scale (60,000 kw.) atomic-power plant at Shippingport, Pa., though AEC knew the plant would be obsolete by the time it was finished, in 1957. And on Wall Street, the uranium bulls were already hedging their bets with such stocks as Foote Minerals (up 170%) and Lithium Corp...