Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Announcing the Board's decision yesterday, Dean Leighton said that he considers the issue involed to be "not. . . one of social maturity but rather a question of the most effective use of resources for educational purposes...
...could obtain very little data not available here. However, it would be valuable for students in some fields to study in Russia, he maintained. In history, literature, language, anthropology, and archaeology it would be "both feasible and profitable to study in Russia," he said. "Studies in the other social sciences, particularly economics and government, although useful, would not appear possible under present conditions," he added...
...interest in teaching, Gilmore is also a quiet and persistent scholar. His particular bent is the relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his work has dealt mostly with intellectual history, Gilmore was particularly pleased several years ago when Professor Langer approached him with the request that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg...
...consciously avoid imitating the mainland colleges in its educational program. The political realities of modern Asia, President Tseng believes, demand an education that is both broader and more practical than that offered in the traditional Chinese university system. Tunghai students will get heavy doses of history, the classics, the social sciences. They will also be required to do some nonacademic labor (a radical innovation in the Orient, where intellectuals have traditionally regarded manual labor as degrading). Since Tunghai is located in rich farming land, the university may eventually establish a student farm that will supply its own needs, and perhaps...
Invite Andre Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and a few others to after-dinner coffee some evening and let them talk about what they want to (which, more often than not, is themselves); make up your mind to sit back and listen. Such a social conclave is sure to be successful. With the appearance of The Anchor Review, we now see the formula, usually restricted to Viennese coffee houses and the like, applied to public print...