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Such a step may appear minor, but actually involves a significant retreat. Without interviews, a Master, if he intends to involve himself in the selection process, must assess all applicants to his House solely from an application form. Surely even a brief interview with a tutor provides the Master with slightly better information on which to base his choice. Interviews further serve in some small way to convey information about the House to the prospective applicants...
Gerachenkron's spring half course, entitled "The Political Element in Economic History," will "attempt to assess the significance of the political element in economic development," Gerschenkron said. It will draw its examples of economic development from the history of nineteenth century Europe...
...have been dispatched to the hinterlands for stretches of forced "vacation" or sent into factories as workers to punish them for exuberant lapses into frankness. It is not surprising, therefore, that the spate of books coming out of Russia these days is uneven and, for Western readers, hard to assess, particularly since too many of them are wildly advertised as the one book that rocked the Soviet Union to its heels. Yet it is now possible to take provisional stock of the newly emerging Soviet literature...
...suddenly potent Crimson hockey squad travels down to West Point tonight to meet an Army team whose strength is difficult to assess. The Cadets have won their last three games by a composite score of 29-3, but all against some of the weakest opposition in the East...
...anyone is in a position to assess the problems of U.S. psychiatry today, it is Kansas' Karl Augustus Menninger. He was a co-founder and has long been chief of staff of the Menninger Clinic, the world's most famed hospital for the mentally ill and its most fertile field for psychiatrists in training. He has interpreted psychiatry to the laity in such noted books as The Human Mind, Man Against Himself, and Love Against Hate. Now, in The Vital Balance (Viking; $10), Dr. Menninger not only spells out what he thinks is wrong with psychiatry; he also...