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...Harvard President James Bryant Conant, who told the story last week, the boy's philosophy is a justified kick in the pants for most U.S. educators. They have been so busy tailoring curriculums for the average and the least able that they have "largely neglected" the most able, i.e., the top 10% intellectually. One significant reflection of the neglect: fully half of the young people in the top 10% never get to college. This week the Educational Policies Commission issued a 100-page report, Education of the Gifted, supervised by Conant, with an analysis of the problem and recommendations...
...Henry Bryant Bigelow. Bigelow, Professor of Zoology, introduced oceanography to the University together with Alexander Agassiz and founded the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute for study of marine life, Undoubtedly the world's greatest expert on jellyfish about which he once wrote a monograph, Bigelow was especially able at getting around the multi-syllabled terminology of oceanography and explaining the science in homespun style...
...joint author of the much used Standford Achievement Tests. Bremer Whidden Pond, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture. Walter Eugene Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit. Kurt Hermann Thoma, Charles A. Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology. Langdon Warner, curator of the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum,Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, assistant curator of insects, and James Lawder Gamble, professor of Pediatrics
...acting of the supporting cast is uniformly excellent. I especially enjoyed Thayer David's gross portrayal of Sir Jasper Fidget, though Earl Montgomery, Bryant Holiday, Eleanor MacLean, Leslie Paul, Naomi Raphaelson, and Jeanne Tufts all perform well. Kenneth Scott was imperturbably droll, though silent, in the part of Balthazar, a little colored boy who attends Sparkish (in its zest for "business" the Brattle group created this role out of thin...
...BRYANT HENDERSON