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...overwhelming number of Harvard men majoring in Social Relations go to Medical School, and learn the specific tools used in Soc Rel, such as psychoanalytic method, for a professional career. Proportionally, over 50 per cent of Radcliffe graduates doing additional work enter the GSAS. However, the overwhelming majority of Harvard students continuing in graduate studies enter professional schools, such as Law or Medicine...
Died. Raymond Chandler, 70, mystery novelist (The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Lady in the Lake), screen adapter (with Billy Wilder) of Double Indemnity, creator of glib, tough-talking Private Eye Philip Marlowe; in La Jolla, Calif. Chandler came late (44) to his fiction career, but his imagistic style put brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting...
Like Novelist Naipaul, a Trinidad-born Hindu, Ganesh glows with a Messianic conviction that "the day go come when you go be proud to tell people that you did know Ganesh." Dazzled by the arcane wonders of the printed word, he embarks on a brief but disastrous career teaching in a district school, goes on to write a book: 101 Questions and Answers on the Hindu Religion. ("Q. What is Hinduism? A. Hinduism is the religion of the Hindus. Q. Why am I a Hindu? A. Because my parents and grandparents were Hindus.") Eventually Ganesh stumbles on his true mission...
...clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country at the United Nations, where he will presumably wind up lecturing the West on its lack of spiritual qualities...
During a distinguished career, he served as secretary to President Eliot from 1901 to 1905, Secretary to the Corporation under President Eliot and Lowell from 1905 to 1910 and under President Conant from 1934 to 1943. He was elected three times to the Board of Overseers. Greene, who founded the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and the University Gazette, was also prominent in national public service, and took part in the founding of several important social and philanthropic institutions...