Word: casse
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...guide's editors-James Cass, associate educational editor of the Saturday Review, and Max Birnbaum, director of education and training for the American Jewish Committee-base their "selectivly index" on the scholastic potential of the student body. The index, they claim, "is a crucial measure of the academic quality of a college because...an institution of higher learning can never be much better than its student body-and is not likely to be much worse...
...Comparative Guide to American Colleges, by James Cass and Max Birnbaum ($8.95; paperback, $3.95), is a recently published ambitious consumer's guide to 1,132 colleges, with descriptions that are fair, yet frank, avoiding the dishonesty and exaggeration of some school catalogues and the dry statistical shorthand of other compilations...
...details admission standards, thus helping students eliminate wasted applications, and goes on to describe the academic environment at each college so that applicants will not learn too late whether a school is intellectually lazy, rigorous, or so tough that the dropout rate is alarmingly high. Cass and Birnbaum examined such matters as the number of full professors in a department to judge its real strength, rated the faculty by the quality of schools where they got advanced degrees, discovered solid and improving regional colleges that are anxious to acquire a national student body. Campus religious and social life was investigated...
...must have been an absolute giggle of an idea. With the elections coming up and all, it would be a hoot to do a sort of Little Me thing, only about the girl who married the President. All the fun people joined in-Peggy Cass, Dody Goodman, Harold Lang, Dagmar, Kaye Ballard, Jacques d'Amboise, Melissa Hayden, Vicki Cummings and lots of others-and everybody got dressed up in the wildest costumes while Cris Alexander took loads of simply outrageous pictures. Pat's manuscript had everybody in stitches. The joke was a good one when Cecil Beaton produced...
...lightweight boat will be Martyn Greenacre at bow, Leo Cass at two, Bruce Stephenson, who rowed JV last week, at three, Allan Tice at four, Charles McClennan at five, captain Jim MacMahon at six, Roman Nowygrod at seven, Galen Brewster at stroke, and Paul Henry...