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Rising and falling with the tides of every faculty whim, the tutorial system of the Department of Economics faces the prospect of a watery grave. Last spring, a two year suspension of all tutorial was voted by the Department, except for Seniors writing honors theses. At the end of the two years, the possibilities and value of the continuance of the tutorial system are destined to be reassessed. The uncertainty of the suspension period, however, poses a gloomy outlook for a tutorial system which is gasping its last breath in many departments of the University...
Unlike U.S. journalists, who are hired by the whim or good judgment of their editors, Japanese journalists are traditionally hired on the basis of formal examinations. Recently, 488 selected applicants for ten reporting jobs on Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun demonstrated their ability at composition, foreign language, Japanese vocabulary, dictation & rewrite...
Wallace does not propose that we placate the Russians by acquiescing in their every whim-but he is envisioned enough to recall that Franklin Roosevelt's key to peace was the dissociation of our foreign policy with , that of the United Kingdom...
...claimed by members of the Business Staff, there is very little control over whatever money that is donated, then all the faculty and poor boys can do is pray-or go to work on the affluent alumni so that future endowments will not be left to whim and fancy. While the Administration is fully aware that this whole business of gifts, wills, etc., is highly delicate and personalized matter, it should be aware that there is a middle ground to be followed...
Just outside of Livingston, Ala. the dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial...