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...college girl of the classes of '62, '63, '64 and '65 is a creature of high emotions, originality, beauty, freedom and wisdom. Notably missing are the "apathetes" of the '50s-the "silent generation." President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, a noted expert on U.S. student attitudes, credits the change to the nation's recent peace and prosperity-a nice switch on the notion that only a war or a depression can make students serious. "Today's college girl is more serious about everything, including marriage," says Eddy...
...Chatham (500) ................ Pittsburgh...
...wider geographic area, notably from the big Eastern cities and suburbs. Says Kalamazoo's Princeton-educated President Weimer K. Hicks: "The sooner people in the East lose their provincial outlook on college education, the sooner we can ease up the so-called admissions jam." Pittsburgh's Chatham College prides itself on nurturing diversity and "intelligent nonconformity" among students; President Edward D. Eddy Jr. suggests that a student candidate's having backed some "unpopular but worthwhile cause" is a good qualification for admission...
Father & Son. What Aline could not do for his career, Scribner's famed Maxwell Perkins did. The editor trotted to keep up with him on extravagant walks (the 6½ miles completely around Manhattan's Central Park), sat evening after evening drinking with him at the Chatham Walk, where Wolfe could feel the rumble of his beloved trains from the New York Central tracks beneath Park Avenue, and above all shaped Wolfe's raw, spontaneous, poetic prose into Look Homeward, Angel. In time he became alarmed as Wolfe's great fungus of words threatened to expand...
...Shakers at their height were sternly anti-esthetic, considering beauty a snare. Yet their interest to the world is emphatically esthetic. The Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y., founded just nine years ago in recognition of the Shakers' unique contribution to American culture, already gets close to 9,000 visitors a season, sends them away charmed by the clean, consecrated ingenuity of Shaker crafts. Some 8,000 objects, crammed into the museum's six sizable buildings, show that despite themselves the Shakers created and lived in beauty...