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...only real "general education" I've seen at close range outside of Harvard was the scheme at the University of Kansas, which represents a kind of adaptation of the Chicago "great books" tradition. At Kansas, a uniform list of readings from at least 60 Western authors, ranging in time from Plato to C. P. Snow, is read and discussed in small groups by every sophomore who plans to receive a bachelor's degree. Instead of a lecture of two each week to clarify the material, which for so large a class would create a huge logistical problem, some faculty member...
...refugees cheered up, however, when President Hafez Assad arrived dressed in military uniform. Surrounded by excited crowds who tossed flowers, cheered and chanted, "Welcome Assad, the liberator!", the President kissed the Syrian flag and raised it to the top of a makeshift flagpole...
...passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend arguments for fraud and betrayal. Tiger Brown's conception of honor is simply his right to a glittering uniform...
Another Government route that guarantees entry to the middle class is the military. Not only are members of the armed services paid a middle-class salary after a few years in uniform, but they also receive free on-base housing, medical care and PX privileges. An officer's uniform instantly confers middle-class status-or higher. Air Force Lieut. General Daniel James Jr., top-ranking black in the armed services, seldom wears his civvies. "If I have to go to a meeting," he says, "I just walk in and take my seat, and they know...
Constable conjectured that a possible trade the Strauch committee might recommend would have Harvard assume Radcliffe financial aid costs in exchange for Radcliffe making its three Houses more uniform with the rest of the system by separating freshmen from the upper classes...