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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Schreiberg, most Woodrow Wilson students aspire to be in-and-outers. They want to work for the government only briefly in a non-policymaking capacity, teach, write or practice law for a while, and then reusually enough to start them off as government interns of some sort, but from there it's a steep climb to the corridors of power. So the most ambitious students--not to mention some who are less than thrilled about the prospect of a "McNamara Fellowship"--stay in school...
Issues & Problems. The New School's professors are almost as unusual as what they teach. The most recent faculty addition is former Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, who last week taught his opening graduate seminar on "Current Economics and Political Problems...
Collegiate Hero Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) conducts a graduate course in higher education at the New School, while waiting in the wings to join the staff is National Review Editor William Buckley. Next fall he will teach a noncredit course on "Issues and Problems of the City: a Conservative View...
...School was created by a group of former Columbia University professors-including Historian Charles Beard, Philosopher James Harvey Robinson and Economists Wesley Mitchell and Alvin Johnson-who felt that Columbia limited their freedom to teach unconventional courses and express unpopular views. By the early '30s, the New School had gained a certain vogue as a center of night-school uplift for left-wing intellectuals. It acquired new academic respectability in the mid-'30s by creating a "University in Exile" on the talents of about 50 European scholars who had fled fascism in Germany and Italy and formed...
...what do the Communists at Harvard do? With only a "handful" of members, a demonstration or parade would be embarrassing; with little overt support, teach-ins would be poorly attended. So instead the Harvard Communists work as members of other organizations. They are inevitably among the hardest working, most vociferous members of non-Communist organizations, and often win respect simply by dint of compulsive industry. They also serve a major communicative function: by meeting together with other Boston Communists and reading reports to each other, they can keep abreast of the events in each area of the radical movement. Then...