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...sell is soft, but the pitch is eager. William Shain of Macalester College in St. Paul brags about his school's Scottish festival. "You haven't lived till you've heard 150 bagpipes all playing together," he tells the group of high school students. To augment Macalester's appeal, he pulls out a picture of downtown Minneapolis and says, "You remember when Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat over the city? That's where it goes." Spike Gummere of Lake Forest College, which is in a Chicago suburb, tells students that the city is close...
...machines on the Williams and Yale campuses. The A.A.P. has handed out a set of guidelines drawn up by the House Judiciary Committee. "Brevity and spontaneity" are key standards. Small extracts may be duplicated for each student in a class when a professor comes across printed material that might augment his lectures. "But you can't do it semester after semester," says Risher. "And you can't make up anthologies. You have to get permission." Helpfully, the A.A.P. has a pamphlet on how to do that...
Gone are the heady days of the '60s and early '70s, when the average annual growth rate of 4.5% allowed the Soviets simultaneously to augment their arsenal, invest in new factories and improve living standards. Says Economics Professor Holland Hunter of Haverford College: "A very stern experiment in industrialization has been under way in the Soviet Union during the past half-century, and it has worked successfully. But this era has played itself...
...dust jackets of their elders and ask to be let into the canon. And No. 27, a thick manuscript of essays, literary criticism, reviews and serendipitous miscellanea, currently sits on a groaning desk in his editor's office in midtown Manhattan, awaiting its turn to augment the author's reputation...
...didn't they (College Officials) look at existing volunteers programs such as (those at PBH) and augment them instead" Ellyn J. Kestnbaum '83 president of PBH said yesterday she added that she doubts whether Harvard's fledgling program can succeed without cooperating with...