Word: stoking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This handy division of labor permitted the Russians to play the two faced Janus. Their prominent role at the Festival allowed them to take credit for the existing fragments of "peace and friendship", while behind the closed door others could stoke the furnaces of power politics...
...office and a football pennant for his sceptre, the college president can be a figure of fun-although few who have held the position have suggested that it is fun to be a college president. A veteran occupier of learning's most uneasy chair, Harold Stoke, now president of Queens College, tells in The American College President (Harper; $3.50) what it is like to sit there. Stoke's credentials are various: he headed the University of New Hampshire from 1944 to 1947, then took on the presidency of Louisiana State University and, until his resignation (TIME...
...preoccupation with 'housekeeping,' however irritating and deplorable it may be to a new president of scholarly interests, weans the mind and creates a mood of resignation. Soon he finds his colleagues making references to books he has not read." The average term for a college president, says Stoke, is four years...
Intercollegiate athletics will be eliminated in favor of "giving sports back to the students." It is ridiculous, Stoke explained, "for thousands of students to sit and watch 22 men play football." New College will aim for active intramural competition...
According to Stoke, "The girls tend to do the reading more carefully, and the boys to say more exciting things in class." In addition, the co-ed atmosphere will prevent an unfortunate pattern of formal week-end social life...