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...these fragments, experiments and conflicts a kind of unlikely consensus has been reached," Kerr declared, with undergraduate life following the English pattern, graduate life the German pattern, and the "lesser" professions and "service activities," the American pattern...
...Science 31, which covers everything from public speaking to behavorial psychology, is considered particularly worthwhile. Nevertheless, there is a consensus that many of the textbooks are filled with so much trivia that reading is often dull and unenlightening chore. Probably a representative opinion is that of cadet David B. McIlhiney '64, who said, "A great deal of the curriculum has not been and never can be directed toward the intellectual. Yet Harvard AFROTC would greatly benefit from a more academic approach...
...displayed by King Hassan throughout the sessions, his serious preoccupation with his own region of North Africa, his judicious comment that Morocco would join an Arab union headed by Egypt's Nasser only after careful study had shown such union to be "in the common good." The Washington consensus: King Hassan is a "modern reformist" in the tradition of the Shah of Iran...
...batter, throw a wild pitch, and lose two games in a row? Where else could the Mets split a two-game series with the World Champion New York Yankees, who, by the way, were playing .350 ball with 7 wins, 13 losses? Where indeed? At least, that was the consensus in Las Vegas last week, where oddsmakers refused to take any of it seriously, quoted the Yankees and the Dodgers as short-priced favorites to battle it out in the 1963 World Series next October. How the bookies...
Almost four hundred students signed up the next week for Humanities 119--The Narrative Art--a course Van Doren devised in his last years at Columbia. Some say it is the best course they've ever taken, others that it is the loudest of the roaring guts. Whatever the consensus, the style and content of the course tell a great deal about this man who taught at Morningside Heights for almost 40 years and published close to 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism...