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Some of the Faculty favoring strict adherence to the classics or to the status quo have been emotional and narrow, but most have attempted serious suggestions to improve the quality of students and instruction in the College. After many decades of confusion, the objectives of education in the "free society" of today have been clearly and ably defined. The realization in the College of the importance of all learning to all people calls for the award of a single degree to all who are graduated. Finally, an arbitrarily-strict admission requirement should not be encouraged by teachers whose ideal...
While 16 percent, of whom 80 percent were candidates for the A.B., favored the "status quo" on the matter of the College degree, another 40 percent preferred two or three degrees awarded according to one's course of study, feeling running strongest among the social scientists...
...Churchill: "Winnie is a great man for the status quo. He even looks like the status quo, doesn't he? . . . He's scared of letting the Russians get too strong...
Jimmy Byrnes, in a memorable phrase last February, denounced Russia's "unilateral gnawing away at the status quo." The Abadan strike and related developments were reminders to the West that in large parts of the world the economic and social status quo could not be preserved indefinitely and that unless Britain and the U.S. improved the status quo the Russians would go on gnawing-or take a quick bite...
Every now & then Jones ran into opposition from two extremes: what he calls "radical, direct-action Negroes and whites" and "status quo whites." Said he last week: "When the Earlham call came, those pincers were closing in again. I think I could have pushed them open, but I said, 'Let them find a younger man.' My work at Fisk has reached the point now where it cannot slip back...