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Like every other college and university, Harvard and Radcliffe are having their troubles in the economic downdrift. Neither is feeling as bard a pinch as many a U.S. school, but each is facing the same worries. Gifts, invested endowment, and, in some cases, tuition incomes are sliding downward, but wages, salaries, and equipment costs are still clinging to inflation-high levels. In other words, the "cost of education" is too high for an increasingly large segment of America's educational institutions...
...Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare" [TIME, Oct. 3], Not quite so. The same date, but not the same day. The English bard died on April 23 Old Style, or May 3 New Style, the system of reckoning already adopted in Spain...
...think it relevant that he is 6 ft. 9 in. tall and the eldest of six brothers, all over 6 ft. 4. He has already written several sprawling novels of his native Sioux country which stirred the hayseed in many a city heart and established him as a prose bard of the tall corn. Now he plans a triple-decker to be called World's Wanderer, of which The Primitive is Part...
After the physical trial the whole College roped into the Welesley Chapel to hear President Mildred McAfee Horton speak on "woman's role in this revolution." Mrs. Horton is on the bard of directors of Kobe College, located in strategic Japan...
...Will Shakespeare's home town flocked the first arrivals of the 150,000 money-bearing pilgrims from some 75 countries who are expected to come, gawk, worship and spend before the first leaves fall. The hardier Bardolators (as one London critic calls them) will swarm for "Bed, Bard and Breakfast" to Stratford's 45 hotels and 47 guest houses. They will also get their fill of the master's works- eight plays a week in the $1,000,000 riverside Shakespeare Memorial Theater...