Monday, Oct. 13, 1952
Report Card
P: Recognizing that 21 outstretched hands are better than one, Texas Christian, Southern Methodist, Baylor and 18 other Texas universities and colleges, all of them denominational (both Catholic and Protestant), have banded together for the purpose of collectively soliciting money from business corporations, both within and beyond the borders of Texas. They agreed to split 60% of the take into 21 equal shares, divide up the rest according to enrollment.
P: In a New York Times interview at Princeton, Albert Einstein had some thoughts on present-day college education. Too early specialization, too little stimulation of critical thinking, he said. Through specialization, the student "may become a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that [he] acquire ... a vivid sense of the beautiful and the morally good. Otherwise, he ... resembles a well-trained dog . . ."
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