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Soon after the death of its greatest president, Princton University established the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs--dedicated, in the words of a memorial plaque, to a "leader in education and the affairs of state" and to the "prophet of a new world order." Throughout its 29...
Professor Carmichael calls the next step, "a month in the library." During this period, students are expected to work on well-organized and well-documented research papers of around 40 pages. Considering that a History honors thesis at Harvard is 80 pages, these Conference papers, produced in four weeks, seem...
MORE THAN HALF OF ALL FATAL INFECTIONS ARE ACQUIRED INSIDE A HOSPITAL. The extent of this danger and the complex, rigorous measures needed to minimize it preoccupied the American College of Surgeons' clinical congress last week in Atlantic City. See MEDICINE.
After a rigorous examination in Jewish law, circumcision (eased with local anesthesia), and a symbolic cleansing immersion in a pool, ex-Shintoist Kotsuji last week became a full-fledged Jew with (as one rabbi put it) "all its rights and all its troubles."
The seminars or workshops are designed to allow freshmen to follow individual interests as much as possible and simultaneously to challenge them into rigorous study--in short to communicate the "excitement" of learning.