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...provide opportunity for the student to discover what scholarly inquiry in general is about... (d) to give early opportunity for the student to test strenuously his academic pre-dispositions." (p. 8) "The seminars were in no sense to replace departmental courses; they were, ideally, to heighten their impact." (p. 17) "We did not worry that by pursuing a focused inquiry we would lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic specialist as a means...
Natural Affection, by William Inge, has the impact of a tabloid shocker edited by Freud. As dramatic art the play fades out with the curtain's fall, but Kim Stanley's acting, Tony Richardson's direction, and John Lewis' hot-and-cool jazz score make it boil with sensual excitement...
...immense technological explosion of recent years has had a tremendous impact on the military, both in hardware and thinking. An even greater strain has been imposed on those responsible for providing the fleet with officers equipped to handle all of the ramifications of the space age. The Naval Academy is desperately seeking to alter its teaching methods and curriculum to meet the challenge. Unfortunately, it has not been able to bring itself to break completely with the traditions of the past, when all it had to do was produce a semiliterate officer well versed in gunnery, seamanship, steam propulsion...
...leaders on all aspects of employment. Another approach was worked out by U.S. Industries, Inc., New York manufacturers of automated machinery. The company and the International Association of Machinists have established the American Foundation on Automation and Employment Inc. Its purpose is to further automation even while easing the impact on workers. U.S. Industries supports the program by contributing up to $1,000 to the foundation for each piece of machinery it sells...
Surprisingly, the student who has weathered the initial impact, and some have, finds that he is at once being exposed to several realities: the frat-rats, the dormies, the pseudos, the adicts the real things. It's football on Saturday afternoon and "pot" that night. It's all there to be tasted by the 17,000 undergraduates, and if all 17,000 these are not living in ivory towers, that may be because Harvard take 4,500 off the top and there just aren't enough in the world to go around. Michael Gettelman, 1L University of California...