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...first part of Section 3 of the Bricker Amendment would cut deep into the President's constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations. The executive branch now makes an average of 100 agreements a day in the NATO setup alone. If Congress started "regulating" that process, the U.S. would get no international business done...
...successor to the late great Dr. Simon Flexner and to Dr. Herbert Spencer Gasser, now retiring at 64 after directing the institute for 18 years, the trustees chose Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk, 55, president of Johns Hopkins University since 1949. They also streamlined the institute's internal-command setup and elected David Rockefeller, 38, the founder's grandson, as, their own chairman...
Housemasters meet today to iron our details of the new Claverly setup of individual House "entries." The Council will submit its recommendations to the Masters prior to this meeting...
Idea of America. In Illinois, all this is perfectly acceptable: to save them the cost of maintaining both public and parochial schools, the state allows about 18 predominantly Catholic communities to combine the two. But acceptable or not, the Lutheran Larsons did not like the setup. "It seems to me," said Dorothy Larson, "that it's part of America that a public school is one thing and a parochial school is another. When nuns are the teachers in a public school and the atmosphere is all Catholic, then that's getting the idea of America all mixed...
Laval Robillard '53 replied that "football is very definitely not part of the college curriculum." Robert Langston '53 contrasted football in terms of the "ethical idea of a university" and the "aesthetic beauty of a good football team," and decided in favor of the present football setup...