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...reasonable amount of privacy. Casual friendships between students and Faculty members--or those families Mrs. Bunting hopes to attract--could gently alter the intellectual atmosphere. 'Cliffies might stop feeling and all too often behaving as if they were losing in a competition with Harvard for Faculty attention. The desperate grind might desert her study corner for the intellectual give-and-take in a Harvard-style dining room. The party girl might be stimulated to individual research through the example of a scholar or public figure she came to know and admire...
...first is the intense young individual who values ideas and comments on academic problems with such insight and cleverness that he forgets to shave or wash. He is a grind and a recluse; he rots in Widener. The second is the companion of wine, women, and money. He talks it over in the Club in his oval-shaped Brooks Brothers suit. The third is the anti-intellectual slob--the animal. He grunts and sweats in Briggs Cage...
Partly as a result of the "shining example" of the Chicago experiment, and partly from his own experience, Bender is led to make comments such as "The A student is very often quite stupid," and, "An awful lot of thick and narrow students grind...
...post. Many suspected in the Council petition a thinly disguised plot to knife Howie. Actually, while many ABC supporters worked against Phillips, they apparently did so on their own. Neither Alberg nor Barber openly promoted Hornblow's petition. Mike Hornblow's motives were impeccable; he had no axe to grind and sincerely believed that Phillips' abuses had to be stopped...
...chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners who started last week's annual Boston Marathon could be counted on to drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times in the past seven years, and 1959 Winner Eino Oksanen. a hawk-nosed Helsinki detective, was back as a heavy favorite. Slim U.S. hopes...