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Former first man at St. Paul's, James Hammond is in the third position on the team. Tony Ostheimer is fourth, and Douglas Gardner fifth. Ostheimer played at Middlesex, but Gardner is playing for the first time. All three excel at hard shots down the sides that keep their opponents...
...such treatment is evidently insufficient for Princeton's Homer Smith. Not content with a six-paragraph squib about him in its football brochure, the Princeton department of public relations has published a five-page biographical tribute to "a tremendous competitor who is determined to excel in whatever he does...
...College of the University of Chicago, Dean F. Champion Ward trotted out statistics to prove that Robert Maynard Hutchins' ten-year-old "Great Books" curriculum is a success. Students who have set their own pace through a Hutchins-type education, said Dean Ward, excel in almost every field. In nationwide graduate-record exams, 99% of the Chicago scholars placed in the upper third of the group. In the biological sciences, arts, vocabulary and social studies, 98% got better-than-median grades. Some 86% were above the median in physical sciences, literature, general mathematics and effective expression...
Actually, it is necessary to go a little deeper to find the real problem of the young students at New Haven. The Ford Scholars are unable to fit into Yale's social success pattern. To be "accepted" Elis must excel in something, anything. But they must be a key member on an athletic team, a publication, or a fraternity. If is here that the Ford Scholars fall down, and it is here where the entire program is jeopardized...
...artists prefer portraiture to other forms of painting; very few excel at it. Portraits afford little opportunity for imagination or self-expression, but they require a full measure of two great qualities: clarity of observation and rendition. The public is nevertheless partial to portraits, especially those of women & children. The four reproduced on the opposite page are public favorites at four U.S. museums...