Word: carleton
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...English teachers ever seen at one of the country's best high schools. Just 24 last week, and married to a medical student at Northwestern University, she has the face and figure of a campus beauty queen, which she was a few years ago at Minnesota's Carleton College. (She also graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.) But her 100 students in four daily classes have no time for ogling her. Teacher De Long is a perfectionist; she conscientiously demands-and scrupulously grades-one theme per student each week. Result: she works 14 hours...
...search of quality need regard as second choice such vigorous institutions as Antioch, Carleton, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Kenyon, Mills, Oberlin, Reed, and California's Oxford-inspired Associated Colleges (Claremont Men's, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Scripps). All are tough to get into, and worth it. The California group's freshmen come almost entirely from the top 5% of their high school graduating classes. Pennsylvania's Haverford has long been a sort of pocket Harvard, has an impressive faculty-student ratio of 1 to 7. Iowa's Grinnell is known as "the Harvard of the Midwest...
...Hugh Carleton Greene, 49, brother of Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene, took over as director general of the British Broadcasting Corp., replacing 60-year-old Sir Ian Jacob. Going from Oxford to Fleet Street in 1933, Carleton Greene was a Daily Telegraph correspondent until 1940, when he joined BBC to wage psychological warfare. BBC staffers are confident that their new 6½ ft. "D.G." is the man to hold up the BBC side in 1964, when the BBC's charter and the mandate of the ITV commercial network both expire...