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Failure of Nerve. Despite the baroque language, Arrowsmith is no irresponsible crusader. He holds three degrees from Princeton, plus a B.A. from his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, and he taught at Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of California at Riverside before shifting to Texas in 1958. He first turned public critic in a series of Phi Beta Kappa lectures at ten campuses in 1964. At this month's convention of the American Council on Education in New Orleans, Arrowsmith boldly laid his criticisms before 1,400 college trustees, presidents and deans. He accused them of selling...
...will be tested against some mighty firm defenses, starting with Williams. Ivy champion Brown is usually the toughest, and the Bruins' smothering 6-1 win over '65 runnerup Penn last Saturday showed that they are still the toughest team to score against and despite their 1-0 loss to Wesleyan, still the team to beat...
Amherst may seem like small-time opposition, and of course the Lord Jeffs, along with Williams and Wesleyan, are dubbed the Little Three in comparison with Harvard (and two other Ivy League schools). But there is nothing little about the way they play soccer: Wesleyan beat Ivy League champion Brown this week, 1-0, and Amherst has won three of its last five games with the Crimson...
...Insiders complain that he failed to strengthen his spotty staff and that he had a chip on his shoulder in dealing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Relations were much smoother between the SEC and American Stock Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington who, before he accepted the presidency of Wesleyan University this summer, was the favored choice to follow Funston...
During the past century, every revision of the Methodist hymnal has tended to reduce its Wesleyan content. Reversing the trend, the 1966 edition includes 81 hymns by John and Charles Wesley, 20 more than the 1935 version contained. Also included is a nostalgic fundamentalist favorite that was left out of the previous hymnal because it did not suit the musical palate of the time: The Old Rugged Cross. All in all, proudly sums up the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, retired Bishop of Western North Carolina and one of the supervising editors, "it's the greatest hymnal...