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...remainder would come from philanthropy and endowment incomes ($500 million to $1 billion yearly if prosperity continues) and stringent college economizing. Items: bigger classes, fewer "small" courses, using existing classrooms for longer hours, more use of TV lecturing. There is no reason, Economist Harris believes, why economies cannot cut the fat from college spending and yield another $1 billion to $2 billion annually. If the U.S. follows his budget, he suggested, it can easily find $7 billion a year to pay for its booming colleges...
...threatening to get tough. All of the warnings have slowed trading. Belatedly, the New York Stock Exchange warned its members against using their facilities "for reckless speculation by the uninformed." It has finally realized that Wall Street's failure to do its own policing will bring more stringent Government regulation...
...present system, which has gained the cautious approval of deans and students alike, has developed cyclically over a half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend...
...mind, it furnishes a setting in which ideas can be fixed and evaluated, and, to some extent, ordered. Eastern provincialism, as seen at Harvard, is an especially enlightened type: it is urbane, cultured, informed and relatively tolerant. But where Harvard leaves people to themselves superficially, it makes more stringent demands intellectually. It imposes its own attitudes and values in the guise of liberality, expelling and excluding alternative patterns of thinking...
...States Government would, as the Supreme Court argued in the Nelson case of 1956, conflict with and duplicate Federal legislation which has pre-empted the field. The other ABA recommendations--to give the Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...