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...President" & "Bob." There are signs that the working relationship may broaden to the social and personal fields. The only Washington social affair Dwight Eisenhower has attended this year outside the call of duty was a tea given by the Tafts in honor of Mamie Eisenhower...
...cure, says Harno, cannot be found in merely adding more courses : too many schools have already tried to broaden their students by adding such subjects as law and society, law and the economic order, law and labor. To provide practical skills, they have added legal writing, legal drafting, legal accounting. "All this the schools ... are attempting to pour into the ancient measure - the three-year course of study. What is resulting is something just this side of chaos...
...music-loving citizenry decided to found an all-professional orchestra. They set a budget of $30,000 for the first season (1950-51); the bills mounted to $50,000. A large, timely gift helped them over that hump. Then a core of determined symphony enthusiasts set out to broaden the list of contributors...
...Harvard was to get quite an education from President Conant. To broaden his student body (it was 60% Eastern), he set up a series of national scholarships to bring in able students from all over the U.S. To broaden the scope of his faculty, he created a series of university professorships "in the hope that distinguished scholars with a 'roving commission' would help to break down departmental barriers." Over protests from some professors, he plumped for a program of general education, and with the publication of the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), he placed an official...
...critic hesitates at praising too much, but William Alfred, a Teaching Fellow in English, has written a verse play of great eloquence and force. Pruning the classic legend (known from Eschylus piece) of its less dramatic elements, he has arranged the structure so as to broaden the emotional range, yet keep the action unfolding at a fast, gripping pace. The chorus, used by Eschylus to express moral and descriptive parts, is utilized more effectively by Alfred as individual judges who reveal the events of the war through a trial...