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Assistant Dean of Freshmen from 1939 to 1941, and Assistant to Provost Buck for two years after the war, Keppel has renovated the Graduate School of Education and has had tremendous influence in drawing up the plans for the "truce among educators...
...Truce Among Educators...
Keppel's views on the new program parallel Conant's appeal of 1944 for a "truce among educators," Conant declared, at that time, that "The necessity for good teaching is so obvious as to require no special emphasis in connection with either general education or education for a career. The problem of recruiting the members of the teaching staff and their adequate training is, however, full of difficulties," he added...
Almost against its will, the U.N. had uncovered a wonderful political and psychological asset in Asia-100,000 living witnesses against the hatefulness and tyranny of Communism. It was unfortunate that this great asset stood in the way of a truce. It had to be hoarded, notwithstanding, and the U.N. knew it. Highly creditable to the U.N. was the fact that it published the figures and told the story frankly, thus presumably burning the bridges to any sort of tricky compromise or shady juggling. But now truce seemed farther than ever away...
...notice the ugly constitutional squabble between Prime Minister Daniel Malan and South Africa's Supreme Court (TIME, March 31 et seq.). While the country celebrated 'the 300th anniversary of the landing at Cape Town of South Africa's first white settlers, government and opposition kept political truce. Last week the truce was over...