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Nowadays I love the Ford Foundation; for though its sins have been scarlet, yet it has produced the new report on the failings of college and university in America, prepared by Mr. Frank Newman and seven colleagues.

What’s more, this Newman Report may have to be considered seriously by the educational establishment, for the foreword to it is written by Mr. Elliot Richardson, our present Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; it has the blessing of the Nixon Administration. Some students have done well to protest against the dreariness of higher studies, Mr. Richardson remarks: “There is a very substantial core of validity in their anger.” Amen to that. How happy I am that Mr. Newman (the associate director of university relations at Stanford University, and an intelligent—yes, really—Republican) gave no hand in the preparation of this report to Dr. Clark Kerr, the multiversity reject; to Mr. William Scranton, the man born not to be President; or to Mr. John Hannah, once president of Michigan State, now dispensing our foreign aid!

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Nowadays I love the Ford Foundation; for though its sins have been scarlet, yet it has produced the new report on the failings of college and university in America, prepared by Mr. Frank Newman and seven colleagues.

What’s more, this Newman Report may have to be considered seriously by the educational establishment, for the foreword to it is written by Mr. Elliot Richardson, our present Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; it has the blessing of the Nixon Administration. Some students have done well to protest against the dreariness of higher studies, Mr. Richardson remarks: “There is a very substantial core of validity in their anger.” Amen to that. How happy I am that Mr. Newman (the associate director of university relations at Stanford University, and an intelligent—yes, really—Republican) gave no hand in the preparation of this report to Dr. Clark Kerr, the multiversity reject; to Mr. William Scranton, the man born not to be President; or to Mr. John Hannah, once president of Michigan State, now dispensing our foreign aid!