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This restriction of courses, however, is not the restriction which seems to be bothering the Princetonians. Most seem to be pretty satisfied with their academic life; the gripes and dissent come up about other prohibitions entirely...
...last few decades. The Divinity School, natural focus for religious thought, has fallen behind the other Graduate Schools, both in funds and leadership in its field. Religious activity in the entire University has suffered from the peculiar attitude of those students and professors whose notable tolerance toward diversity and dissent does not seem to extend to religion...
...Some Dissent...
Sensitive Dissenter. The age of sophistication raises an eyebrow at any such Hairbreadth Harry interpretation of history. But the U.S.'s awakening to the twin perils of Communist intentions and Communist scientific capabilities has been a hairbreadth affair. Like his late great friend, James Forrestal, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with saws) was one of a little band of men in Government who caught the threat of Communism when others heard only what they wanted to hear, who was motivated by a single-minded patriotism when patriotism was a drug on the one-world market. For years, Strauss was virtually unknown...
...generally middle-roaders; they favor sound money before tax cuts, a firm foreign policy, the return of power to the states-all pillars of the Eisenhower political philosophy. At first, Utah's J. Bracken Lee, a Taftman from way back, stood out like a sore thumb in his dissent. He denounced the Administration for going "down the same road we did with the New and Fair Deal." But at the convention's end, Lee had some afterthoughts. "I guess I'm so far out of step I'll have to review my thinking," he said...