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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold the golfer acts with his own mind, chooses his own partners, and arranges his own schedule. Leopold the monarch behaved in the same independent way. This, as every student of constitutional monarchy knows, can be dangerous for the state. Certainly, it is not good for a king's popularity. Leopold, for example, just before the Belgian parliamentary elections in which the "royal question" of his return was the prime issue (TIME, July 4), decided without consulting anyone to play in the French international golf tournament. Staunch monarchists winced; the King, they said, ought not to compete with just...
When Peter Baumann was a student at Iowa State College, he got to thinking about chicken wings. Nobody really cares too much about eating them, he decided, and besides, they tempt chickens to fly the coop. So why not get rid of them...
Philosopher Joad especially deplores the technological-democratic tendency in education, which "seeks to enable a man to acquire a living rather than to acquire a life worth living." He advises "a return to . . . classical-humanism ... I would suggest that every student, whatever other subject he may be studying, should take . . . a compulsory course in the history and problems of philosophy, supplemented by the history of scientific ideas...
...week, along with the columns of results, newspapers carried reports of this year's tragic wave of student suicides-of 18-year-old Varada Bajulu who tried to kill himself by swallowing powdered glass; of Shankar Bhosle, 21, who hanged himself; of the lawyer's son, only 15 years old, who climbed the University of Bombay's 300-foot clock tower and threw himself...
Change of Pace. In Missoula, Mont., a student veteran advertised in the Montana State University newspaper: "For Sale: Excellent courting car . . . Owner now needs baby carriage...