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...best debatable, and perhaps ludicrous. Furthermore, the existence of a compact between Harvard and the Federal government to further the University's expansion appears dubious in view of the fact that, since the advent of the Johnson Administration, the Federal government has been giving proportionately less money to top-rank universities such as Harvard and M.I.T. and more to state universities and junior colleges--to create what Johnson called "regional centers of excellence," rather than only a few major centers of academic work...
Considering the backgrounds of the B.S.&T. musicians, matters could hardly be otherwise. Three of them are products of top-rank conservatories (two with M.A.s). Another two have at least some music-school training, along with a wide experience in jazz and commercial bands. One grew up almost exclusively in the jazz tradition. The remaining three served their apprenticeships in folk, rock and blues outfits...
From their balconies and windows high in Warsaw's party headquarters, top-rank Communist officials stared grimly down on Jerusalem Avenue. There, in the March slush, a mob of 10,000 students from Warsaw's two largest universities converged on the grey building, howling slogans, pelting police with bricks and smashing windows with rock-centered snowballs. Across Poland last week, the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka gazed in alarm upon similar scenes in what became the country's most menacing riots in eleven years...
...traditional schools-Leacock's own McGill University in Montreal, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who fathered a new branch of science, an enthusiastic mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered...