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Another recourse would be the creation of a great many more junior colleges than now exist. President emeritus Conant has advocated this plan, claiming that a considerable number of the people that now go to college are interested in nothing more than be gotten out of a two year course. Furthermore, about half of the nation's college students, he maintains, drop out after two years of study...
...were improved during the week. President Eisenhower continued to take active leadership in the fight. As rarely before during the budget fracas, his Administration was marching in step. Even if it had been deliberately timed, the announcement of the resignation of Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (see below), who had gotten out of step with his hair-curling-depression remarks, could hardly have been more pointed. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, an economic conservative by birth, instinct and training, stepped to the firing line with a denunciation of "budget butchers, whose latest proposals go far beyond sound economy and now threaten progress...
...that a student left the exam half-an-hour early. A professor wonders why his best student entered law school and a business school student wonders why Littauer students won't talk to him. And a grad student wonders if his parents will ask why he hasn't gotten his Ph.D...
Tony Gianelly has gotten off the best discus throw in the league, and there appears little reason why he cannot duplicate it tomorrow to win the discus title...
...difference between what Orwell saw in 1937 and his vision of 1948 seems slight. In the Spanish War he saw words become the instrument of many lies. In 1984 he imagined a time when, no longer an instrument, language might become the exemplification of a lie that had gotten beyond any man's control...