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Swelling Classes. It was about time. As colleges across the nation are learning, the state of English composition in most U.S. schools is deplorable. A British 14-yearold is often less creative than his U.S. counterpart, but his writing is notably superior. He can often outwrite the average U.S. college freshman, as several studies have proved. He can do so because he practices day after day. U.S. colleges have freshmen who never wrote a single theme in four years of high school...
...main objects of the expedition. An interesting sidelight of these discoveries along the Patoclus is that the Roman graves are placed near where the Lydian city had been. The Romans always buried outside the city walls; the sixth century Lydian metropolis of Saddis therefore was larger than its Roman counterpart. Urbanization in Lydia in the sixth century was of far greater proportions than scholars had ever expected...
...twelve colleges give Harnwell much room to apply his theories. In addition to the Arts and Sciences school and its women's counterpart, Harnwell presides over the School of Chemical Engineering, the School of Civil Engineering, the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Metallurgical Engineering, the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the School of Education, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Nursing, and the School of Allied Medical Professions...
ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACEFUL USE: In Vienna, where Atomic Energy Chairman John McCone went to attend a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, word leaked out that McCone and his Russian counterpart, Vasily S. Emelyanov, will trade inspection trips of their respective atomic energy labs and installations. A member of the Khrushchev party, Emelyanov told McCone that the development of atoms for peaceful use must be a joint program, "because it is just too expensive for one country alone...
...practice of living together by faculties, Azrael notes, tends to make the Russian student more specialized and narrower than his American counterpart. At the same time, however, he found that Russian economics students knew more about their own literature than an American economics concentrator is likely to know about American literature. Natural science students seemed to have a widerranging interest in other fields and a more open-minded approach to controversial ideas than their colleagues in the social sciences...