Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps Chicago's example cannot be applied universally. The school has a long tradition of intellectual discussion that made the vast majority of students unwilling to join the sit-in. Most of its students are in graduate and professional courses, are less subject to undergraduate enthusiasms. Levi has relegated increasing responsibility for the university's conduct to the faculty, by so doing has engaged the support of most professors. And Levi has earned ample respect by years of brilliant scholarship, educational reform and urban involvement. But his example could well be studied by other college administrators...
...Subject to Student Association Executive Board approval this morning, Business School students will vote this afternoon on whether to strike...
...Dwight David Eisenhower (see THE NATION) was its quiet dignity. The brief Biblical service and the confident hymns bespoke the man who had chosen them before his death; like him, they were modest, realistic and hopeful. Yet, in a nation whose overblown funeral rites were once the proper subject of mockery in Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, such a straightforward farewell is no longer the exception. Christian funerals in the U.S. are changing, and they now tend to emphasize the simple, yet triumphant qualities that characterized the Eisenhower rites...
Roessel says he will start new courses in any subject requested by students. There will be no pressure to meet a rigid two-year junior college timetable. "We will tell them, 'take your time,' " Roessel says. " 'If you need three years, or four, use them.' " After the college moves from its temporary location to its new campus near Tsaile next year, it will expand its enrollment of 357 to accommodate 1,000 students...
Brainwashing, especially in the wake of the Pueblo experience, remains a timely subject. And Braddon's theme-that the personality with the surest sense of itself is most likely to survive-is persuasive enough. But in much the same way, the novel that best succeeds is the novel that best knows itself. Unfortunately, the author has tried to set what is essentially a muted memoir in a superstructure of futuristic wartime drama. Braddon's you-are-what-you-remember message would have had more power if presented with less literary artifice...