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...until then the mention of God had been practically taboo in the public schools, and Levitt had offered his idea as a substitute for a regular morning prayer, to which secular groups strenuously objected. Last week after months of worried debate, the school board made the proposal official. Henceforth, each morning, New York City's pupils will at last be able to pay homage to God through Smith's words...
...foreign languages, the great waste . . . is that the job is very seldom finished." Henceforth every student should be required to master at least one foreign language, not just to pass some sort of reading examination, but to be able to speak and read with ease. "It is time . . . to call a halt to this retreat toward monolingual isolationism . . . It is hardly necessary . . . to elaborate the statement of Goethe that 'A man who knows only his own language does not know even that...
...McCarran Act (incorporating part of the Internal Security Act of 1950) added only a few more types of travelers to be barred, notably aliens who were or had been Communists and aliens who intended to commit any "immoral sexual act" in the U.S. But the McCarran Act specified that henceforth alien crew members, t00,1) must have individual visas, and 2) must subject themselves to all the questions other travelers are asked. The Department of State said it would take one to two years to add another 100 consular officials to its foreign service to be able to handle...
...defenders of thirteenth-century scholasticism have found their last stronghold in the modern western world. The administration of Harvard College, renouncing all such poppy-cock as "diversity" and "individualism," has reached back to St. Thomas for the rationale behind the recent change in parietal rules. Unity shall henceforth be the watchword of the Dean's Office...
...Gadget of the week: a "student reaction meter" invented by two professors of engineering at the University of Tennessee. Henceforth, a student in the college of engineering will be able to protest that he doesn't understand what the teacher is saying by merely pressing his own special button, wired to a meter on the professor's desk. The more buttons, pressed, the more the needle will quiver, and the more it will behoove the professor to make himself clearer...