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TIME'S reporters and writers strive mightily, within the framework of their U.S. upbringing, to understand and report accurately on the newsmaking Latin Americans. This week, for an exhaustively reported story on a major Latin American country and its new President, illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, see THE HEMISPHERE, The Paycheck Revolution...
Frohock agrees that the departments need more than 3 hours a week. "This is one of the reasons we are behind the other colleges," he adds. "Columbia has 5 hours a week, Wesleyan has six, and Princeton has six." In the accelerated Cornell system, the elementary language student spends eight hours a week studying languages, three in a "drill section," three in the lab, and two in lecture. These courses, however, count for double credit...
...accelerated course were put in, a far larger percentage would pass the test. If this proved to be the case, it seems doubtful that such a course will be instituted here for some time to come. There is good reason to expect that the students themselves would greatly resent eight hours a week learning to say, "Passez La Beurre," even if the chances were good for their getting through in one year. What about the existing intensive courses? Chinese Aab, Slavic Aab, Mongolian, Japanese...
...will have a definite struggle even to retain its share in last years' three way tie for second place with Army and Dartmouth. Though the varsity keeps its status quo, and most likely is a better team than last year, the rest of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming league (the eight Ivy schools plus Army and Navy) has improved more than the Crimson...
...Requests for transfer were on the whole very well distributed among all eight Houses," Bullitt observed. He noted, however, that the interest expressed in Quincy by Dudley House members was unexpectedly high...