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...girls have, in fact, been spotted reading poetry by flashlight while perched in a tree. Philosopher-Lawyer Bloustein, who in his own education tended toward the "interdisciplinary development that John Dewey suggested," looks forward to presiding over a school where "an individual can involve himself in two or more distinct disciplines." He will teach at least one course himself. "Ideas are the thing," he says. "At Bennington, even the trustees have ideas...
...been suggested that Harvard's Commencement, the ancestor of all American academic ceremonies and quite distinct from those of Europe, is the United States' chief contribution to higher education. If an undergraduate cannot find distinction in the Harvard curriculum, he can be sure it will appear in the ceremony of the parting...
...Senatorial campaign, six months later, of H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History. Hughes, running as an independent, took on Edward M. (Teddy) Kennedy '54 and George Cabot Lodge '50. The good Harvard professor had entered this heavyweight fight of names and heredity as a distinct underdog, but the haymaker that knocked Hughes out of the race completely came from neither of his opponents, but from the other side of the globe...
Hardline-A ground communication link as distinct from a radio link...
English women: Queen Elizabeth II is out (although she is a distinct possibility as German-of-the-year), and so are Mrs. Harold Wilson and Princess Margaret (who won't be here until November). But there must be someone: Ivy Compton-Burnett? Lady Snow (Pamela Hansford Johnson)?? Iris Murdoch...