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Thus, tribalism may yet tear the vitals out of the new Congo before it even gets its start as a nation, just as it has been the political plague everywhere in Africa. For to conservative tribal rulers, democracy is a mysterious and not entirely welcome concept. Tribal elders do not like the idea of upstart youngsters challenging their authority in the tribe's affairs. Warrior clans, like the Lulua, whose hegemony was built with spears and brawn, are outraged to find themselves outvoted by the humble Baluba, who have adopted such unmanly professions as clerk or typist. Many tribes...
Princeton is one of America's toughest academic institutions, but it is also one of the most rewarding. The concept of the highest intellectual attainments tempered with the humanizing influence of the social amenities is one which the university seeks to preserve as it prepares its sons for The Nation's Service. RICHARD H. NELSON Chairman, The Princeton Tiger Princeton...
...Boston. Asked to explain whether he was encouraging Negroes to "violate the law," Lawson told Branscomb: "When the Christian considers the concept of civil disobedience as an aspect of nonviolence, it is only within the context of a law or a law-enforcement agency which in reality has ceased to be the law." Unable to accept this reasoning. Branscomb asked Lawson to leave Vanderbilt. He refused-and Branscomb expelled...
Kahn applies his concept of form and function to the greatest single problem facing architects today: finding a solution to the choking clutter of the nation's big cities. Fascinated since his student travels abroad by the medieval walled city of Carcassonne in France, he came to the conclusion that what gave it coherence was that every aspect of the city was ordered around a single principle, namely, defense. Today Kahn believes that the modern city will renew itself around the principle of movement. His fertile imagination visualizes the idea in terms of a river. Great expressways would channel...
Fresh ideas abound for U.S. schools, but spreading them is something else again. According to a Columbia University study, it takes something like 15 years for a new teaching concept to reach 3% of the nation's schools, 50 years for it to reach all of them. Last week a small group of researchers calling itself the Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland was doing its best to hurry the process for suburban schools around the city...