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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mudslinging is another man's honest examination of the issues. Launching Labor's manifesto, Britain Belongs to You, at a televised press conference, Gaitskell confirmed Tory predictions that Labor's campaign weapon would be "the envy tactic," although Gaitskell obviously did not use the term. The ordinary Briton may be better off these days, conceded the Labor manifesto, but "the contrast between the extremes of wealth and poverty is sharper now" than when the Conservatives took power eight years ago. To remedy this state of affairs -the existence of which foreign observers frankly doubt-the Labor manifesto...
...college will shun short-term specialization, emphasize principles that endure through technological changes. Oakland will offer degrees in only four fields: liberal arts, engineering, business, teaching. Every student will devote half his time to humanities, spend a full year studying the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Engineers must master one foreign language, preferably Russian, and all seniors will take a "great issues" course together...
...must, at the outset, deny that a "religious renascence" is an adequate term for the religious interests of students at Harvard. One must first look askance at the word "religious," which implies some sort of mixture of faith and ritualistic practice. While attendance at Memorial Church has multiplied many fold since the arrival of the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, such has not been the case with other churches in the vicinity, which have been garnering about the same number of worshippers for many years. The new popularity of Mem Church is generally ascribed to the stimulating...
Moreover, there is not even a simple dichotomy between secular and religious forces in the University. For Harvard itself is based on a faith--summed up by the term Liberal Education--which is in potential conflict with other faiths. Perhaps at Harvard more than any other school the belief in liberal education is inculcated; however, its tenets are seldom recognized as the credo of a faith, which rests on assumptions as unprovable as any other faith. Knowledge through scholarship is justified and constant questioning become the chief paths to this summum bonum. There are of course all the institutional trappings...
...help the Government out of its troubles. Congress last week took a tiny step. While it has turned down the President's plea for authority to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term bonds, the House approved a bill to permit the President to raise interest rates on E and H savings bonds to 3¼ from the current 3.26%. Cash-ins of E and H bonds during the first eight months exceeded sales by $759 million. The House move, which is expected to win Senate approval, was immediately labeled "inadequate" by Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. He emphasized...