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...rest of The Last Laugh, it is, unfortunately, low grade Perelman. For the last few years of his life, his writing lacked much of the snap that distinguished such earlier collections as Crazy Like a Fox and The Road to Miltdown. The writing in the last volume he published while alive, Eastward Ha! was somehow less densely funny, less wildly allusive than it had been before. The pieces in The Last Laugh, all of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, represent more of the same. In these last stories Perelman drifts more and more into a cosmic nostalgia which...
Northwestern has plenty of excuses: it is the only private school in the Big Ten, with fewer than 7,000 undergraduates (next smallest in the conference is Iowa with 24,000). Northwestern also believes football players should be able to read and write. A grade point average of at least 2.7 is required, compared with 2.2 at other Big Ten schools. The athletic budget was nearly doubled last year to $4 million, but it is still the lowest in the conference...
Tuition may be going up, but grades have been coming down. Figures released to the Faculty this week indicate that undergraduates received more "unsatisfactory" academic records last year than at any time in recent history, in part because of the College's first round of grade deflation in several decades. The Administrative Board last year reviewed the cases of 622 students with unsatisfactory grades--9.4 per cent of the student body...
...field hockey is not the type of sport that you play with other kids down the block. It was not until Sara reached seventh grade that she was introduced to the game...
After Sara graduated from New Canaan Country Day school in ninth grade, she enrolled in the Hotchkiss School in northwestern Connecticut and played varsity field hockey for three years. To cap off her high school career, she was elected captain her senior year...