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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...develop underdeveloped nations is one field where the U.S. got there fustest and with the mostest. Example: An increasing number of Indian students have been invited to visit Russia, but none has stayed to study. Fifteen thousand Indian students are now studying...
...Sweater. Mary McCarthy has marked most stages of her life with a book or story or critical essay-not to mention several thousand yards of the brightest conversation ever to come from a pretty woman's lips. Her first book, The Company She Keeps (1942), told of a girl who suffers guilt by association of one kind or another with a Yale man, an art dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants...
...other side of the fence, many administrators and faculty members think that the University must expand at any cost. Faced by statistics which predict the doubling of applications to the College by 1965, they advocate that Harvard admit six or seven thousand students, even if it requires thousand--man lectures and the climination of tutorial. Such changes, however, might constitute a radical transformation in the education the College now offers. They would open the door to increasing mediocrity in instruction and physical facilities: an after-dinner sleep for Harvard College...
...pace with the demand, and the demand itself was so small that anyone who could pass the entrance tests was almost guaranteed admission. No longer can the University even begin to cope with the demand. Probably no one--in his wildest dreams--thinks that Harvard could admit the several thousand qualified applicants to the freshman class which it expects by 1965. But any enrollment short of that figure is just as arbitrary as the present limit...
...requires five and ten thousand dollars public liability insurance covering both the owner and anyone driving the car with his consent. "Students who do not comply with these provisions in every respect will be considered uninsured," Parker warned...