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Students in the University who are majoring in dentistry may soon had themselves earning a stripe for each 2,000 cavities they fill. The Defense Department yesterday announced the first call for dentists since the outbreak of the Korean...
Burchett said that although Dean had been very sick, he was in good health last week and had regained all but ten pounds of his normal weight. He was living in a two-room underground apartment at the prison camp, wearing a neat pin-stripe suit, playing Korean chess with his guard. General Dean still did not know that he had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first to be won in Korea...
Even if Adams had done none of these things, one other achievement would stamp him with the stripe of genius: his wonderful letters. To those who automatically pigeonhole Adams as a crotchety Cassandra, Biographer-Critic Newton Arvin's springy sampling of the voluminous correspondence will come as an eye opener. Tart as alum and economical as Japanese prints, the letters also spill over with sensuous responses to life as scandalous in a proper Bostonian as living on capital...
Rather, the primary purpose of a university is to provide an open forum, in which ideas of any stripe, no matter how odd or distasteful, may receive their full hearing. The reason for this forum can readily be found in John Stuart Mill's treatise "On Liberty," and it would perhaps be well if President Conant went back to that important but little read work and perused it once more. For here we have the best possible argument for a free market of ideas. This freedom, says Mill, is not a reward bestowed on those who follow the popular line...
...ball is snapped and it goes to Average Christian. He's circling his own right end, interference is forming in front of him . . . He's up to the 15-yard stripe, running behind Prayer, Love, Bible Study, Witnessing, Faithfulness . . . and there's Church-Attendance out there . . . Humility running across offering protection from the rear as the great wave sweeps across the 50 into enemy territory. They're to the 40-yard stripe, the 30, open in the clear field up to the 20, the 10, the 5-it's a touchdown and the ball game...