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...looked for more than good College Board test scores (the freshman mean: 615 out of a possible 800). More decisive were written essays and proof of intellectual curiosity. Instead of summer loafing, next fall's incoming freshmen were busy last week perusing a list of prescribed books, from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way to Western Civilization and Calvin Hall's A Primer of Freudian Psychology to William Golding's Lord of the Flies...
Rounding out the program is the enormously popular Edith Symphony by Tchaikovsky. Students with Summer School cards will be admitted at the reduced price of one dollar...
...hotel, run since the Duchess' death by her old and Rosaesque friend, Edith Jeffrey, never fully recovered from World War II, when a German bomb wrecked the front of the four-story building. Rosa, who refused to take shelter, was pulled out of the wreckage, but her precious stocks of champagne were gravely depleted. "Don't ever die," the Duchess of Jermyn Street told a friend when she recovered. "I've just been right up to the gates of heaven and 'ell, and they're both bloody." The fabled food and demented dialogue were never...
TALES MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, by Sir Osbert Sitwell (207 pp.; Liftle, Brown; $4.75). As a family, the Sitwells-Sir Osbert, Dame Edith and just plain Sachev-erell-have got more literary linage out of self-exposure, on the basis of less actual literary accomplishment, than any artistic dynasty in history. Osbert. who earlier dealt exhaustively with all his relatives in his autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!, has now found that its five stout volumes were not enough. Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa...
Federal aid to education is no longer a slogan but rather a massive fact. According to Oregon's Representative Edith Green, sponsor of the Administration's $1.5 billion college-aid bill, the 85th Congress alone considered 683 education bills.* The current federal outlay for 689 education programs amounts to $2 billion a year, dispensed by about 40 separate agencies. "This makes it impossible," says Mrs. Green, "for any member of Congress to know what is being done." The aid comes with strings-not so much crippling directives as warping pressures. Since it traditionally gives aid only for specific...