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Many Eastern schools, such as Swarthmore, are practicing the utmost in narrow-mindedness in their refusal of such Western students. More noteworthy, however, is the fact that, in their endeavors to retain so-called Eastern superiority and prestige, they are only cheating themselves...
When Mark Twain called Heidelberg "the last possibility of the beautiful." Germany's oldest university was gloriously awash with the Student Prince atmosphere of beer mugs, sabers and sashes. It was still the citadel that had beckoned Spinoza with the promise. "You will have the utmost freedom of philosophizing." U.S. students in the 19th century swarmed there for the great flowering of scholarship and the pleasant beguilements of student life...
...soul of a child, argued Montessori, develops through "periods of sensitivity," when he has a preternatural bent to walk, talk, or advance in some other respect. These periods must be nurtured; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of his yearning to master chaos. Since success encourages learning, the child must also move at his own pace, step by step, gaining confidence through competence. To guarantee all this, Montessori developed what she called "the prepared environment"-a system in essence much like today's programed learning...
Harvard has travelled a shabby path these last days. The original action of the administration in refusing the Student Council permission to sponsor a concert by Pete Seeger raised questions of the utmost importance. And the administration's decision yesterday to permit the concert, as long as Seeger is treated as an artist and not a political figure, makes it absolutely clear that their policy strikes at the vital heart of Harvard's commitment to free inquiry...
...conflict-of-interest charges in the other," in obvious reference to the conflict-of-interest troubles of a Ford competitor, Chrysler (see following story). To prevent recurrences, said Ford, top corporate executives must take full responsibility for setting up high ethical standards and strict policies and policing "with the utmost thoroughness and intensity." With a mea culpa, as a General Electric director, he also suggested that outside directors should make it their business "to be aware of the pertinent codes and policies of the companies on whose boards they sit." If the companies themselves fail to keep their own houses...