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Beauty & Freedom. In a sense, McKenna has only done what comes naturally at North Carolina, the first (1795) state university to open its doors. Chapel Hill boasts "something in the air" that inspires purpose. In part, the spur is natural beauty: a town built around a tree-shaded oasis of ivied Georgian buildings on 552 acres. Alumnus Thomas Wolfe ('20) fondly described "Pulpit Hill" in Look Homeward, Angel as "a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast...
Before World War I, the university launched the South's first great college extension service, which in turn inspired good highways, school libraries, medical schools, community drama and the North Carolina Symphony. The Institute for Research in Social Science dramatized Southern problems, helped spur TVA. The Institute of Government trains state and local officials at every level-judges, jailers, sheriffs, tax collectors. Spurning political interference, North Carolina desegregated its graduate schools in 1951 and admitted Negro undergraduates in 1954. Last year Julius L. Chambers, the Negro son of an auto mechanic, scored the law school's highest grades...
...Civil War, increased international cooperation and the force of public opinion finally combined to cut off the trade. As the author points out, this barbaric trade, like the cruelty of the Pharaohs, left its monuments: an accumulated wealth in Europe that helped spur the Industrial Revolution, a labor supply in the U.S. and South America that helped build a continent. But for the U.S. it also left a legacy of black hatred and white guilt-both far from final expiation...
...spur toward private schooling is getting into college. The country's 1,708 independent secondary schools, with an enrollment of about 250,000, send 95% of their graduates to college, against 40% from public schools. This faith in private schools is chiefly rooted in their freedom. They can select better students. They can pay teachers by merit, make innovations, borrow ideas from anywhere. On every score they can outpace all but a few crack public schools...
...most notable feature of the new tax bill that President Kennedy signed into law last week was a provision that permits corporations to deduct from their taxes 7% of their investment in new plant and equipment. This "modernization credit" was designed to encourage capital spending and thus spur the nation's lagging rate of economic growth. But in its October newsletter, Manhattan's First National City Bank forcefully argues that a far more sweeping tax reform will be required to get the U.S. economy really moving again...