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...always referred to Gertrude's early days as the best period of her life: the days before she caught what he called "the absurd notion of genius." Later, when she visited America in 1934, she had become a Lion. On her one-night stay in Cambridge, when she lectured to Harvard and Radcliffe, Miss Stein wrote...
Finderson was himself the best basketball player in Brandeis' young history, and in his first season as coach he has built a team out of a largely inexperienced group. An outstanding sophomore center and pivot man, Larry McNulty, is the key man in the Judges' attack. He stands 6 ft., 4 in., and is currently averaging 15.8 points a game...
...need twice as many college teachers in 10 years as we have now. I am very much impressed by the statistics in the Immediate Plans of the Class of 1958 published by the Office of Student Placement. Since my undergraduate days at Harvard, it has been said that the best students go to the Law School, the next best to the Medical School, and Arts and Sciences and Business then must make their selections. Actually, the 1958 Class gives an indication of a reversal of this trend. Twenty-five of the 36 highest honors group intend to go into Arts...
Would it not be expected that the best students, on the basis of college achievement, should go to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences? This is where they seem to have a comparative advantage. Their academic distinction in Arts and Sciences points to exploitation in Graduate make the best use of their capacities...
...Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Exodus, Uris (3) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 7. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver 8. Lady L., Gary (8) 9. Tenderloin, Adams 10. The Best of Everything, Jaffe...