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Sir: I challenge only the grading that relegates the Master Sherlock Holmes to Straight City, after running him, blasphemously and preposterously, with Charlie Chan, who gets into Valhalla. Chan, an amusing charlatan, should have been paired with Mr. Moto, and that correct company could well sustain your preference. But Holmes...
Reform-minded Faculty members and students, who often sense Ford's sympathy with their proposals, find it frustrating that he does not force his opinions upon the committees and the Faculty more strenuously and rapidly. "Dean Ford works with the department bigwigs, instead of making them work with him," one...
While our correspondents on campuses contributed much to the story, many key interviews were handled by Education Reporter Peter Babcox. At his alma mater, Columbia College (Class of '60), he taped the thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta...
STEPHEN DEYOUNG explains "the sterility of modern English letters and society" by examining G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House as symptomatic of a strain of "social ignorance and aloofness" in English literature since World War I. With an incisive and lively style, DeYoung's fast-moving argument is more speculative...
Students are demanding the right to be heard on committees that change curriculums, shift degree requirements and grading practices. There is little doubt that they can make an immense contribution to such planning-and there is no question about the justice of their claim that many courses are, indeed, irrelevant...