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Today the band examines what students did with the celebrated "Princeton Plan." (Bang to CRAM.) While some of their cohorts were out working for political candidates, academically-minded Princetonians had their own ideas what to do with the Princeton Plan. (Play. "The Work Song," then jump to MEET...
...Zeckendorf. Apart from the tangle of overextensions and bad luck that resulted in the collapse of Webb & Knapp in 1965, Zeckendorf seems to have little to be modest about. The son of a Long Island shoe manufacturer, he dropped out of high school, but entered college after attending a cram school and completing 16 regents' exams in one week. In 1925, after three years of parties and football, he dropped college to major in real estate...
...tribal societies have not kept pace with the times. The nomadic Turkana women of East Africa still perfume their bodies over fires of scented wood. The Hausa wives of northern Nigeria still amass huge fortunes in the form of thousands upon thousands of Japanese-made enamel bowls, which they cram into their huts, causing at least one Hausa husband to complain bitterly: "I don't even have enough room to pray...
...easy to measure many of the purposes and objectives of education," says former U.S. Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. Should parents be dismayed at a private contractor's cram-school approach or delighted when it boosts their kids' test scores? Whatever the answer, parents and taxpayers are legitimately fed up with the failure of many large public school systems to demonstrate anything but Byzantine bureaucracy and underachieving pupils. Making schools responsive to the relentless pressures of economics and competition may be a harsh way to force improvements-but stricter accountability is clearly needed to fill...
Some of the students took quick cram courses in foreign affairs, even in how to make presentations. In a gesture reminiscent of the "Clean for Gene" McCarthy campaign, almost all of the lobbying students-including 1,000 from Yale and 2,000 law school students from across the nation-came neatly barbered, wearing coats and ties, to the Hill. Most students concentrated their attention on Representatives from their own districts, as with a group of North Carolinians who called on Congressman James T. Broyhill. The lobbyists generally received polite audiences with their Representatives, and even some assurances of support...