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...core of the entire report. The intent, said Gardner, was to provoke "whatever is necessary to get the people of this country to think about this problem." Despite some reservations about oversimplification, many educators were pleased. Observed Chester Finn, professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University: "The commission's report is a splendid codification of what I've regarded as the conventional wisdom of the past five years. It gives these ideas the kind of respect they deserve." The teachers unions also endorsed the overall goals, although they quickly cautioned that longer school days would have...
...whatever name, they are doctors' least-loved patients, individuals who use imaginary or self-inflicted physical illnesses to gain attention and manipulate others. The hostility displayed by physicians to these patients, known clinically as somatizers, is usually attributed to irritation and frustration. Now Psychiatrist Charles Ford of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine offers a more startling explanation for the rancor: physicians and somatizers have a lot in common. The attraction of many doctors to medicine, he suggests, is a kind of somatization: a fear of disease and death...
What is most flattering to Harvard is that the broadcast succeeded. The campaign rolled along on schedule, reaching its goal in early 1960 with a final $2.5 million gift from Harvard S. Vanderbilt '07. The broadcast was so impressive that even the president of Minesota's Carleton College kicked in $100, according to a recent Harpers's article...
...swimming team is in 15th place after the first of three days of the NCAA championships at Vanderbilt University...
...statement, released by Women's Equity at Vanderbilt, also says that the group's "activities in support of equitable treatment of faculty and staff women are considered by some to have been a factor in [Vanderbilt's] decision to select the new chancellor from outside the university...