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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if the Midwest is granted a certain amount of insularity, this ignorance reflects more than disinterest in current affairs; it indicates the Zeitgeist of a nation which--formerly complacent about its technological superiority--has failed to insist upon rigorous education, especially in science...
...Russian educational system suffers from no such neglect. The Soviet high school graduate has studied five years of physics, five of biology, a year of astronomy, four years of chemistry, and ten of mathematics. Of course, the U.S.S.R. can decree an emphasis upon science teaching; the highest-salaried man in the Soviet Union is the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
Speakers at each dinner will be senior faculty members. Plans are still tentative regarding many of the speakers, and depend upon faculty acceptances. Taylor suggested that Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, would probably be a guest at the dinner for concentrators in the American field...
Thresky, sacred ibis of a local "humor" magazine, has returned to his perch atop the Lampoon building. The footloose golden bird reappeared upon the Cambridge scene early yesterday morning and issued an immediate statement describing his travels...
...college with as much academic proficiency as Harvard, the establishment of a Committee on Regional Studies for the College is certainly justified. The graduate Regional Studies Program and the Russian Research Center provide an admirable base upon which to build. The program would provide a more vital, useful education for a small, interested group of students, many of whom could be of great service to the United States...