Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly at all by what his students produce, since they usually do so only after he is dead, and seldom credit him with their success. Under these circumstances, scholars tend to recruit colleagues who will enhance the immediate professional reputation of their department, rather than teachers who might, in the distant future, enhance the local reputation of the college, to which the recruiter has only a secondary allegiance...
...local interest in the subject, India was No. 1. Speaking in New Delhi last week to the Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Britain's Sir Julian Huxley warned that India's "failure to solve her population problem will be a political and social disaster," while "success will secure her leadership in Asia and give hope to the world at large." Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will certainly increase population, as against the $10 million for all measures that will...
...sport "big names." But, according to Master Taylor, "if a man is not well-known, busy students may ignore him--no matter how valuable he may be--and the visit will be a failure." Occasionally, however, an "informal teacher" (such as Nadia Boulanger, who visited Adams) is a great success. "We try to have visitations, not public lectures," explained Master Brower...
...sudden Dartmouth success-aided in no small measure by a trip to Minnesota over Christmas--may stimulate the varsity to a top performance tonight in its most important game of the year. As field-Marshal Montgomery said of an underdog, but victorious Dartmouth rugby team in England, "Makes us sit up, you know, keeps us from getting too complacent...
...wrote a French stockbroker named Paul Gauguin, who left his wife and secure career and went in search of the very place of love. He found it with the Maoris of Tahiti, and many of his pictures, such as the woodcut opposite, attest the artistic success of his quest. But it was a therapeutic disaster to himself; he died in the islands, of syphilis, malnutrition and a failing heart. Last week some 200 of his works, including 75 of his prints, went on show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, which will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan...