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...perhaps it is premature to credit the present effort to reexamine Gen Ed with any general views of a cultural ideal. The major problem in General Education is administrative, not philosophical: it is to strengthen the bargaining power of the College in its dealings with the departments, or at the very least to enable the College to coax from the departments a new pledge of loyalty. For it is still an open question whether a four-year college "experience" makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest...
...York Times was actually spouting steam about Jack Kennedy. The President, raged the Times in an editorial last week, had allowed "personal feelings publicly to bolster and promote and strengthen one of the most encrusted, anachronistic and anti-democratic of New York City's historic political bosses...
Most "take-off" universities start with one strong suit - typically, a good medical school. What marks them is a new effort to strengthen their other schools, to pool their resources with former rivals, to serve the community in some striking way, to install strong leadership and keep moving. Though worried because they lag in undergraduate education, they nonetheless see graduate study as their rising role in a knowledge-hungry society. More than ever they are ready to use money effectively. At least four such schools, all private, have now outstripped their regional reputations and stand ready for national recognition...
...South. Both the Administration and the National Committee are urging state legislatures to adopt the anti-poll tax amendment to the Constitution. Attorney General Kennedy's trip was part of the overall effort. By knocking down the barriers against Negro voting, the Administration can not only help strengthen Negro rights, but-if the attempt pays off-make the South's Democratic Party more to the New Frontier's liking...
...said that the way for the West to achieve such a shift was not through direct military action, but through "the utilization and unification of its immense human and material resources, to strengthen the internal fabric of the free societies." Not only would this make the democracies "impregnable to external ideological assault," but also "magnetic examples of social justice and material well-being for the entire world...