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...anyway. President Harold W. Dodds expressed such an attitude when he said, "We shall continue to stress the college as the element which alone gives meaning to a university. We shall uphold the banner of the general as the only safe foundation for the particular. We shall strive for quality rather than quantity; we have no illusions of grandeur that bigness will satisfy. We shall resist the pressure to be large in numbers, for we believe that we can best serve our democracy by remaining small...
...President quoted Lincoln's second inaugural address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace...
...plan of printing only 'straight facts' in the news columns and only opinion on the editorial pages leaves a twilight zone of 'news interpretation' untouched by the newspaper . . . Newspapers should continue to strive for as much objectivity as possible, but should have no taboos against 'interpretation' when [it] is necessary to an understanding of any happening . . . The trend will be toward more 'interpretation . . .' Who, what, where, when and why no longer answer ail the questions. 'What does it mean?' is an important question that newspapers will try, increasingly, to answer...
...part of a college, the Houses should strive for this equal distribution of the lower grade groupings and the fields of concentration. As part of this College, the Houses should leave selection by any other criterion to the undergraduate...
...which is to lead up to the fact that a new literary magazine has been published, that both Hall and Train are on its staff, and that the magazine's manifesto proclaims that it will "strive to give predominant space to the fiction and poetry of both established and new writers, rather than to people who use words like Zeitgeist." The manifesto was written by William Styron, young author of the excellent novel "Lie Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still...