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Such leavening complements the Cantab's only formal assignment: reading on his own for three years in one field as preparation for his tripos-the grueling exams after his second and third years that are named after the three-legged stools on which exam takers once sat. Even this one-field approach is less specialized than it sounds. The reading is prodigious; more than 200 books a year is average. "Natural sciences'' run from anatomy to zoology, not just physics or chemistry alone. "History" includes economics, government and sociology. "English" involves intimacy with Early Irish, Early Welsh...
Despite a fear "that I should have tried this out in New Haven first," and a feeling that "we're going to take an exam in this later," Miss Winters was a hit in her new role "in front of you highly literate, intellectually alert...kids...
...York and New England schools. Jane went to Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. ("It was ghastly-all girls, and that's unhealthy"), then on to Vassar. A sophisticated delinquent, she was one Vassar girl who never bought a bicycle, preferring to steal them instead. Unprepared for an exam, she filled her blue book with drawings and handed it in. The college refused to flunk her. gave her a makeup exam instead. After two years she went off to Paris, where she studied French and learned beaux' arts...
Specifically designed for the elderly, with ramps instead of stairs and sitdown showers instead of bathtubs. Rossmoor will have 6,750 apartments selling at prices from $10,350 to $12,100. Purchasers must be at least 52 and must pass a physical exam designed to eliminate everyone with a contagious disease. The down payments for apartments begin at $935, and monthly payments thereafter are $95 to $105. About $10 of each monthly payment together with $200 of the down payment will go into a medical fund to be administered by Blue Cross of Southern California. The medical fund will support...
...weekend after exams, the Harvard Ski Team journeyed to Williams-town to take part in the eight-team ski meet which was part of the carnival weekend at Williams College. The team managed to place fifth (despite the exam period lay-off, and the obvious inability to practice steadily.) Above and left are team members competing. Below left is a fraternity sculpture, while at right Coach Jaccaci confers with captain R. Masueen Perkins...