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...MUST ABANDON THE CENSORSHIP...
Thomas Wolfe once said that only a graduate student could appreciate the advantages of a Harvard education. Many members of the M.I.T. community have said the same about the Institute--so many that recent years have seen proposals to abandon undergraduate education altogether. The administration does not concur, but it does consider the Graduate School the most important factor in M.I.T.'s professional program...
...University of Washington (1909), rose to plead for going on. "Of course many fellow Americans find it difficult to grasp what is happening in China today," he said. "All the more reason why we, who know the importance of free China, should keep up our work. To abandon it is to abandon our own conscience." He paused, clutched his chest and fell dead of a heart attack...
David Wayne tries to restore some of the whimsey which Uncle Daniel lost in the transition from the short story to the play. He acts with an abandon very funny to watch, adopting a southern accent just sugary enough to be humorous without becoming cloying. His manner is full of comical inventions, except for some distracting gestures. But even Wayne, for all his talent, cannot make Daniel Ponder anything more than a pitiful, lost child...
...company agreed to abandon its rental-only rule. Most important of all-IBM would make available at "a reasonable royalty" all its current patents and those it acquires in the field of electronics m the next five years...