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Nothing once aroused the wrath of a literature professor more than the abbreviated, handy-dandy "study guide" to the works of great writers. Teachers complained that students unblushingly used these ponies, or trots, to pass a course without reading the assigned novels and plays - and often without bothering to attend...
This turnabout in attitude stems from the ubiquity of the guides. "When I was in college, you had to hide in the toilet to read those things," recalls Jane Ferrar, wife of a Columbia English instructor, and a freelance writer of trots under the nom de plume of Jane Wexford...
Beyond the Teacher. Another scholarly convert to trots is Dante Expert Aldo Bernardo, humanities chairman of S.U.N.Y.'s Binghamton campus, who once considered it criminal to read The Divine Comedy in anything but the original. "If the kids have to be exposed to an interpretation of this stuff," he...
Radcliffe has also named Carol Beebe as assistant director of the Radcliffe College Fund. She will be in charge of the college's annual giving programs, which yearly raise more than $275,000 for Radcliffe. Miss Beebe is a former admissions counselor at the Katherine Gibbs School.
Daunted Defendants. Police are aghast. "The public has a right to know how bad a criminal is," protests Boston's Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara. "The more the press blasts the serious criminal, the better we like it," says Chief Edward F. Leiss of Metuchen, N.J. "I don't...