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...only thing that seems certain is the fact of rising costs. "Everything," says Amherst's President Charles W. Cole, "has gone up-from chalk to footballs." Indeed, chalk is up 30%, footballs 59%, steel desks 50%. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams has noted: "The frogs used by our biology teachers [have] jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen . . ." All in all, the cost of running a campus has soared nearly 70% over what it was ten years...
...they have been affected by such facts as that Harvard has curtailed its famous tutorial plan, and that President Baxter of Williams has complained of having to "deny . . . several students the opportunity to do honors work, which involves special individual instruction." This "Tiffany-type education," as President Seymour calls it, is expensive. So is Yale's scholars-of-the-house program, and so are small and intimate classes in general. As one economy measure, U.S. colleges may well have to resort to more & more huge lecture courses. "The unit cost of such education is low indeed...
Four college presidents will participate in a symposium on Tuesday evening after a dinner at Dunster House for the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research. All four Kenneth Sills of Bowdoin, James P. Baxter of Williams, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, and Leonard Carmichael of Tufts are graduates of the University's Graduate Schools...
Chicago: James P. Baxter '41; 38 So. Dearborn St., Chicago...
...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...