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...William D. Gordy '61, has been awarded the Harold W. Ross Prize for the best undergraduate short story in the aca demic year for his piece, "The Greeks." Runners-up Robert R. Bailey '63, George D. Horowitz '62. Honorable mention: Alan V. Berger '61, Jean-Louis G. Bourgeois '63, Daniel A. Eigerman '61, and Charles K. Horman...
Steak v. Duck. On Monday, Dietzel flew to Natchez to talk to young Perry Lee of L.S.U.'s winning tradition, national reputation, big stadium and aca demic standing. Next day Dietzel had the boy flown down to Baton Rouge for a two-day stay, produced All-America Billy Cannon to chat with his prospect. Thursday, back in Natchez, Perry Lee had a steak with Coach Wade Walker of Mississippi State, then excused himself to down another with L.S.U.'s Quarterback Warren Rabb and two other players specially flown in by Dr. Phillips...
...Grinnell College, these two math problems illustrate a disagreeable point. Both come from texts used in the sixth grade. But the first is from an American book, the second from a Swiss. Clapp's point: through their "stranglehold on education," U.S. educational theorists have so diluted the aca demic content of the public school that it now lags far behind those in Europe...
...begins the latest problem novel by France's Jean Giono. For dust-jacket purposes, it may be described as the stirring adventures of a young Italian officer making his way home through the south of France during the terrible 1838 epi demic of Asiatic cholera. But at bottom, it is not a costume novel at all; it is a new appraisal of an ancient subject -human mortality. Death, and the behavior of people in the face of death, make its subject matter, but its main question is: How should man behave, ideally, when confronted by his oldest, most ruthless...