1964 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 27

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Van bevriende zijde ontvingen we het volgende uitkmpsel uit de Daily American, Rome, November 8, 1963, dat merkwaardige bijzonderheden geeft over een Christelijke Universiteit m Japan Het is wat lang, maar het leende zich minder goed tot bekorting Wij achten het belangrijk genoeg om het m zijn geheel over te nemen CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY by Rene Georges Inagaki Tokyo (AP) — "Why do you want graduates from International Christian University''" a Japanese industrialist once was asked "Because they have personality and character ICU students aie creative, they can think for themselves," replied Taizo Ishizaka, president of the powerful Federation of Economic Organizations Rare praise for any university but especially welcome at ICU For this Western oriented. Christian university is m Japan and has been in existence only 10 years, competing against entrenched Japanese universities that tailor their graduates Japanese style Ishizaka's remark was indicative of the growing prestige ICU has won, although many Japanese still consider it a sort of foreign, private and small institution with missionary overtones Though privileged with the second largest campus grounds in Japan, 320 acres at the western outskirts of Tokyo, ICU has only 1,121 students, including 986 Japanese and 77 Americans Few other Japanese state and private universities have fewer than 10 000 students Some have 40 000 ICU reports that every single one of its 1,071 graduates so far has been placed m a job -— and well placed "Our campus unofficial motto is 'Knowledge for W h a f ' " said Holloway Brown, Columbia School of Journalism graduate and ICU director of public relations ICU's policy is to remain small and keep an intimate relationship between students and faculty It maintains the luxurious ratio of one faculty member to 10 students In addition ICU is a liberal arts college "We produce generalists, not specialists," Brown said "Ninety per cent of Japanese government officials are law graduates They know the law mside out, but have little knowledge of other aspects of human affairs," Brown added Eighteen ICU grads have entered government service and three even have passed the tough Foreign Ministry examination, a feat considered almost extraordinary for private school graduates The faculty of 100 is composed of 69 Japanese, 20 Americans with others from Britain, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland

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