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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toward week's end the free world's biggest headlines dealt not with threats of war, or Communist perfidy or international politicking, but with the fact that one man-U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles-lay ill. "Wise counsel," "singleminded strength," "indispensable man" -the tributes buzzed in dozens of languages and dialects from Tripoli to West Berlin. The British Foreign Office, which had despised him for Suez, was "extraordinarily sorry." The French Foreign Office, which had blamed him for North Africa, now regretted "the greatest possible loss for the West." The Foreign Office of West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: J.F.D. | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...other hand, New College will not set its students adrift without teaching them how to navigate. There will be systematic steps toward greater independence, starting with the carefully guided freshman seminars, progressing to Lecture-Student Seminars, and ending with the senior seminar, a preparation for the senior thesis...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Recent criticism by American educators of efforts toward establishing nationwide student testing programs for college met with varied response from University officials yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Officials Doubt Merits Of Centralized Secondary Testing | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, explained yesterday that the aim of the final study is "to learn as much as possible about the pyscho-social development of the college undergraduate," and that it could aid the University by pointing the way toward the development of "sound pressures for excellence...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: University Will Study Student Mental Health | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...with some alarm, but the spirit of the age seems to dictate that Radcliffe gain "equal rights" with Harvard. Merged activities, proposed tutorial changes, women on the CRIMSON Editorial Board, all hint at the new regime, and more should follow. Among the most valuable experiments arising from this trend toward the triumph of the 'Cliffe is the system instituted recently at Comstock Hall. A "graduate school couple" was installed as head residents instead of the venerable "house mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Couples for the Cliffe | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

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