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...evaluation is an interesting incentive to take tutorial and excel in it, but Wald insists that "the tutorial must ride on inherent interests alone...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Biology Tutorial Is Not Required For Honors...But It Might Help | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...high school talented athletes devote almost all their time to sports without warping their school life. It takes a lot more effort to excel at the intercollegiate level, and yet at the same time, with all Harvard's institutional activity, the athlete wants to spend less, not more, time at practice...

Author: By Boisfouillet JONES Jr., | Title: THE SENIOR SLUMP: Upperclassmen Fade Away in Athletics | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

There's likely to be some fun for Quincy House, too. Dunn is known to wear a dress kilt to formal Lowell House dinners, and he and his wife excel at Scottish country dancing. As for the bagpipes, "the upper pent-house of Quincy," he says, "is a very suitable place for them...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: New Quincy Master Plays the Bagpipes, But Is Dedicated to Department-Building | 3/15/1966 | See Source »

Actually, it is an art in which the U.S. should excel, considering its success in revitalizing the war-scarred Western European nations and Japan. The difference is that those countries were already mature national states with well-developed economies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Pilot with a Mission | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...finger-snapping, foot-tapping music harks back to the early 1950s; in the funky, blues-rooted idiom that is his forte, he is an accomplished but by no means a revolutionary stylist. His attack is clean, straightforward, unsophisticated-basic stuff by the standards of modern jazz. Where he does excel is in imparting a freewheeling, come-join-the-party feeling that, he candidly admits, is the only way to make jazz "a salable item that people will understand, enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: View from the Inside | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

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