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...part of the Committee that seminars shall not be offered if they seem directed toward concentrators or if they appear departmentally inspired. If the seminars are to realize their potential, they must stop trying to teach course material, and concentrate on the far broader objective of combining fields of endeavor, using the Freshman’s previous knowledge as well as his new learning...
...with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME. Aug. 10), drop him with a tranquilizer shot from a hypodermic gun, in order to become better acquainted...
...Australians got the first substantial electric power from their giant Snowy River hydroelectric project, an endeavor so vast that its $1 billion price tag is equal to 20% of the entire national product of ten years ago. Another signal of change: an upsurge in immigration has brought 1,500,000 hard-working "New Australians," mostly from Europe, to back the "Old Australians" in a forced-draft development of their U.S.-sized continent...
...report failed to specify the details of such a program, and did not outline how it could be effected. Instead, it simply said that "each Department shall endeavor to provide a program of courses particularly suited to the needs and interests of the non-Honors concentrator, in terms of both subject matter and mode of instruction...
...Quality in student theatre." Hartman claimed, "goes hand-in-hand with sincerity." When a production staff finds personal expression, a production "even though rough-cut technically" has the "quality of honesty and meaningful endeavor...