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...Ford Foundation. Southern newsmen are now being awarded Mark Ethridge scholarships for study at any of six Southern universities. Stanford University is starting a program for some 40 journalists. Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism this fall will offer 40 reporters programs in urban studies. The Russell Sage Foundation has made two grants for study of the social sciences at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia. The American Political Science Association plans to pay the cost of sending twelve journalists to any universities they choose...
...life; in effect, knowledge has become that which can be known by scientific study?and what cannot be known that way somehow seems uninteresting, unreal. In previous ages, the man of ideas, the priest or the philosopher was regarded as the font of wisdom. Now, says Jenkins, the sage is more likely to be an authority "trained in scientific methods of observing phenomena, who bases what he says on a corpus of knowledge built up by observation and experiment and constantly verified by further processes of practice and observation." The prestige of science has been helped along by the analytic...
Plato too suppressed his rage And Socrates, for they were sage. Impatience born of irritation May lead to sin and dire damnation...
Watching TV during the last few weeks, Americans saw the spectacle of a half circle of rumpled men on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Chairman William Fulbright peering over his spectacles like a country-store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia...
...selecting the talented, training them in the orthodoxy, and promoting them as officials to keep the populace under control and maintain the system. We need not labor the point that China today still has a ruling class selected for their abilities who propagate a true teaching under a sage ruler and strive to keep the various social classes in order...