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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managed to combine academic and public service careers by remaining as a consultant to various bureaus in the Executive branch of the government until 1953, "when the new administration took over the government and all faculty returned to their colleges." For a brief time during the Eisenhower-Taft fight within the Republican Party, he sided with the Eisenhower faction, but for the last seven or eight years he has considered himself politically as an "independent...
...feature of the four-term year which particularly appealled to the Exeter group was its flexibility. Special plans of study for the gifted or the weak student could be easily achieved within the present schedule, but that such a feature would automatically accompany the four-quarter program was an argument for its adoption...
...formula based on multi-million dollar gifts (from the same Edward Harkness who gave Harvard's houses and Yale's colleges), it seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really significant results could be obtained in a group of practical size...
Student Backgrounds Present Dilemma Faced with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...
...Within another few months, Mostecky expects that all the books supposedly transferred to the new International Legal Studies Wing, will have been located and catalogued correctly...