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...their own liking. They experience very little of the pressure of degree requirements, lecture courses, student teachings, and tutorials that face many of the one-year students who will soon confront the alarming realities of the lower schools, and for whom the year at Harvard represents a fantastic cram session that must equip them for their first few years of teaching. And so it is not surprising that it is the one-year people who appraise the situation as being acute, who want things changed now, even though they may not benefit from the change. They do not have...
...directly related to the material with which it deals. Because there is no defined plot, the girls must all develop their own individual stories--and there are simply too many of them for the screen. In its desire to tell the story a la McCarthy, the film tries to cram everything into its focus; so much of the book must be told via telephone conversations and alumnae jottings. But where the movie succeeds, aside from the fine acting, is in giving the audience a visual taste of the 1930's from the floppy hats and long dresses to the "modern...
Communist indoctrination in schools has perforce turned soft-sell. Polish universities dropped compulsory-and widely scorned-cram courses in "Rudiments of Marxism-Leninism," now offer more flexible discussion courses on "Main Problems of Marxist Philosophy." Grade schools offer a new course called "civic education" directed at convincing children of "the superiority of the socialist system over the capitalist system," mainly by studying the party organization and local government in action...
...major complaint of faculty members at the five Florida campuses was that they could not cram their previous 16-week semester courses into the 14-week trimesters without shortchanging students. "Education is not a 60-yard dash-it should be approached and savored," said one Florida State professor, who contended that under the trimester his students were "confused and stunned by the lightning speed of things." Some students agreed. "It's like trying to drink water from a high-pressure fire hose," said...
...second team consists of Cornell senior Steve Cram, Princeton junior Ed Hummer, Penn senior Chuck Fitzgerald, Cornell senior Garry Munson, and Princeton junior Fary Walters. Harvard junior Gene Dressler was an honorable mention...