Word: waseda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some U.S. politicians have discovered that a better way is to let hecklers hang themselves with their own words. When Robert Kennedy visited Tokyo's Waseda University in 1962, he made a gallant attempt to quiet an anti-American mob by inviting the noisiest of the hecklers to share the microphone. Edmund Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, used the same tactic this year with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing...
...even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only to the Sorbonne as the largest single-campus university in the world-but only 5,400 teachers. Equally understaffed are such colossi as Waseda (39,782 students), Meiji (32,584), Chuo (29 774), Hosei (27,708) and Keio...
...graduates from Tokyo University has easy entry to any of the professions, biggest corporations or the top rungs of government. Seven of Japan's past ten Prime Ministers had degrees from Tokyo U. Keio students, more affluent than most, have inside tracks to good industrial and business posts. Waseda's tough-minded, politically oriented students tend to get first crack at jobs in journalism, while Hitotsubashi is strong on languages and produces many economists. Also good in language-training are Jesuit-run Sophia and the Protestant-supported International Christian University. Except for a dozen top schools that compare...
...bewails the plight of the ronin-and passes the blame on to Japanese social rigidity. The country has 72 states and 188 private colleges, but the ronin aspire chiefly to get into only four of them: the state universities of Tokyo and Kyoto and the two leading private universities, Waseda and Keio. Because old school ties at these colleges are so strong-stronger than in the U.S.'s Ivy League and even than at England's Oxford and Cambridge-graduation from one of the four is a ticket of admission to good jobs in government and industry...
...lights. Icily calm. Kennedy borrowed a portable police megaphone and tried to speak. Standing beside him, Tachiya kept up his screaming diatribe. The audience began to yell too. With the meeting out of control, a student cheerleader climbed to the platform, closed the session with a call for the Waseda school song ("Towering edifice In woods of Waseda"). In a final indignity, one cheerleader accidentally struck Ethel Kennedy in the stomach with his arm. Mrs. Kennedy reeled back, straightened again, managed a weak smile...