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...almost-women hustle off alone to New Haven, Yalemen streak into Poughkeepsie, and everyone freely (or almost) trips across the road for martinis. Yet if behavior has changed, the school's general criterion regarding it has not: the student handbook says, "The college expects every student to uphold the highest standards." While reviewing the book last fall, the student government got to wondering: What are the "highest standards" nowadays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Family Talk | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Earlier, the Vassar College Government Association had asked for clarification of a line in the catalogue that says students should "uphold the highest standards." The closest thing to this in the Radcliffe Redbook says...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 'Cliffies Snicker At Sad Plight Of Vassar | 5/10/1962 | See Source »

...relevant question: ought to be done?" They knew not enough to be "for peace". most of us, they tried to put a list of specific proposals they state, "is intended to an approach which we believe cure a meaningful peace and and extend the freedoms we are to uphold." Mr. Bator's letter that as a piece of policy statement was not wholly . The students might well have able to make a presentation signed to persuade the But if their action is do not understand the meaning word. Not only are the sponding to the situation, they are pared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Editor | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Flamboyant, brusque, rude and arbitrary, as well as quick, capable and intelligent, Menon has long antagonized the West-and a great many of his own countrymen. As he flew to New York last week to uphold India's case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MENON'S WAR | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Commitment to Truth. Phenix's moral curriculum goes far beyond mere mastery of traditional subjects. His aim is the moral application of knowledge. In short, his students would be taught to uphold "worth" in every area of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Moral Curriculum | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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