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...strong prejudices seem to have set themselves deep in American attitudes towards education: First, demands for equal rights often fail to recognize unequal talents--many complain that to select certain gifted students for special instruction violates the democratic principle. Secondly, American emphasis on material success measured in terms of financial profit scorns the academic world as largely useless, except in its strictly vocational manifestations...
...Musial had hit in 14 consecutive games; he had pushed his lifetime total of hits to 2,986. Time might catch up with him before he came close to Ty Cobb's far-off collection of 4,191 hits. But this week, barring injury, he should join the select company of six other major leaguers who have broken past...
Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 58, wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 130 Ibs.), single-minded godfather of the atomic submarine, speaks only one language: plain English, spiced with pepper. Last week he flouted Navy customs by showing up in civvies before the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, flouted congressional etiquette by unleashing peppercorn potshots that had even his hosts ducking for cover...
...students, chosen by the NSA, will study in Poland next year as guests of the Polish student organization, Zereszenie Studentow Polskich (ZSP). The ZSP will select two Polish students to study at universities here...
...Tuesday evening, November 1, 1870, a meeting was held at 10 Grays Hall preliminary to the organization of a senior society, which was to afford to a select number a pleasant means of intercourse with each other, not to be expected from the illiberal policy of the only society of reputation existing...