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...number of our guests. We regret that some we would like to have dinner with could not come. We have not been too arbitrary in our selection, or sought only people we agree with or who agree with us. Generally we have searched for excellence, and for those whose impact in their field has been (to use an old-fashioned word that we hope is still in style) constructive. Besides those already listed, here are others who have accepted our invitation...
...these are not Biddle's favorites, and good as they are, they do not have the impact of the third part of the show. This consists of Biddle's Goyaesque drawings of the mummies buried in the crypt of a Capuchin church south of Messina in Sicily. Once upon a time, the Capuchins were famous for having brought back from the Holy Land sacred earth; and in the 17th century, their cemeteries were where the rich and the mighty were buried. The bodies are there today, preserved by some forgotten process, still wearing velvet britches and silver buckles...
What force-feeds the multiversity is federal money-the impact of Government science research that began flooding the universities in World War II. Today the U.S. pays for about 75% of all university research; since it demands the best, more than half the money goes to only six topflight universities, notably California. The result is what Kerr calls the "federal grant" university, responding more to Government needs than to its own desires. Compared with some of his fellow presidents, Kerr is unworried about this relationship, calling it "enormously productive in enlarging the pool of scientific ideas and skills...
...privatism on American campuses in the past few months are hard to pin down. But this trend seems to be the source of the changing focus in the criticism leveled at NSA. The recent increase in student activism that began in 1900 was clearly due, in part, to the impact of the sit-ins. Picketing, sitting in, freedom riding all gave students the feeling that they could do something to affect that great, ponderous bureaucratic world out there. The brief vogue of peace and disarmament demonstrations helped keep this feeling alive. So did the shift in occupancy of the White...
...same time there is much feeling in the Association that there are genuine questions that face the American educational community that need student attention in their own right. The impact of federal funds on the university, the nature of social development of students in an academic community, academic freedom: these issues NSA feels a responsibility toward--since they affect students and it is a student organization. Also here NSA has a greater chance to make itself felt. Other educational organizations like the American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association take NSA views seriously, not as an indication...