Word: wesleyanism
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...time when most private colleges are struggling to find the funds just to keep alive, Connecticut's Wesleyan University has a most unusual problem: it has more money than it can spend-and thus has the cash to experiment with projects that can make it a better place to teach and learn...
Levin did not lost a set on his way to the finals, crushing third-seeded Steve Beik of Wesleyan 6-3, 7-5 in the semifinals. Jarvis's brilliant serving and volleying carried the doubles load, as the Crimson duo edged Amherst's top tandem in a hree-set quarter-final match and blasted Yale's top team of Jack Waltz and Mike Brooks in the semis...
JOHN C. HOY Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn...
Modulation & Moderation. Whatever the reasons for the falling out, Edie will now speak with a considerably more moderate-and more modulated -voice. A onetime Wesleyan University economics professor, O'Leary has been critical of what he considers to be Administration errors, such as the failure to order a tax increase last year. But he admits to being "nowhere near as much of a bear" as Rinfret. Moves to ease credit and to restore the 7% investment tax credit, he says, should help bring on "a change from a mood of moderate pessimism to optimism." And if still more stimulus...
...prime spot in the knowledge industry, which is largely based on corporate partnerships that wed electronics and the printed word so as to participate in the U.S.'s education explosion. Since 1965, Raytheon has bought Boston's B.C. Heath, Xerox has assumed control of the Wesleyan University Press, and RCA, parent of CBS's great rival, NBC, has taken over Random House, is also diversifying in other ways (see following story). Time Inc. and General Electric have gone into a fifty-fifty partnership in a new firm called General Learning Corp. Beverly Hills-based Litton Industries plans...