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While the compulsion is an obvious help, no one, of course, is compelled to attend Beloit. This is no problem, for there are volunteers aplenty, thanks to an imaginative curricular package designed by Beloit President Miller Upton to make summer attendance actually attractive for at least a third of the school's 1,100 students each year...
...Year Off. Upton's multifaceted "Beloit Plan," started in 1964, drops the usual freshman-sophomore-junior senior divisions, in favor of lower, middle and upper classmen. This permits him to treat the two middle years as a single, highly flexible unit. The lower and upper classmen must attend three consecutive trimesters - but in the middle two years students need be on the campus for only two terms. They can choose from among some 30 combinations of classes and off-campus independent study, full-time work, foreign study or just plain vacation. A student can, in fact, arrange to ignore...
...Upton, a rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) former Tulane tackle and onetime dean of business and public administration at Washington University in St. Louis, is successfully breaking what he calls "the lock step of higher-education systems" in which, he contends, the main concern is "the system rather than the end of learning." The intensive lower class year, in which all students take a common course called "Man in Perspective" consisting of interdisciplinary readings ranging from theology to esthetics and science, is designed to provide a firmer transition from high school to the intellectual world. Beloit planners contend...
...Vice-President Henry Wallace ran for President, there was reason to believe a third party could do well. New York State had been able to sustain both a third and fourth party to the left of the Democrats. California had seen, in the '30's, a remarkable showing by Upton Sinclair in an insurgent bid for the Governorship. But in '48 Wallace got two per cent of the vote and was narrowly edged out by a Dixiecrat (a humiliation which could easily recur...
...naval intelligence, seems to think so, and the reader may well decide, despite Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd went crusading for a better world amid the corrupt chancelleries of Europe...