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Bunglers Need Not Apply

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More than two-thirds of all tanker mishaps are caused by mistakes made by the men who run them. In The Netherlands and France there are three supertanker schools.

More than two-thirds of all tanker mishaps are caused by mistakes made by the men who run them. What is the answer to the human hazard? Many experts think it rests with the proliferation of the supertankers—including the behemoths known as very large crude carriers (VLCCs) that will be…

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A bunch of Cambridge students popped up to help in their own fashion the State University of Leiden celebrate a hands-across-the-Channel Cambridge Week.

¶ With some expert guidance from Jonathan Routh, a British practical joker, a bunch of Cambridge students popped up in The Netherlands to help in their own fashion the State University of Leiden celebrate a hands-across-the-Channel Cambridge Week. They 1) opened an exhibition of rare Rembrandts and Hobbemas that turned…

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In Groningen High School Student Rinie Tjassens sat with his classmates to take the country’s standardized final examination in French. By mistake, Tjassens got an English exam.

Spring Hill College, a 126-year-old Jesuit institution in Mobile, Ala., this week graduated a Negro for the first time in its history. The graduate: Mrs. Fannie Motley, 30, a transfer student from the Alabama State College for Negroes.

In 1951, Party-Lining Mathematics Professor Dirk J. Struik was suspended from Massachusetts…

The Great Evasion

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Maria Montessori, who helped to revolutionize a whole generation’s concept of primary education, died in the Netherlands, age 81.

Modern U.S. educators are always trying to define the “aims” of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan’s leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A….

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