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Scout (Mary Badham) is six when the story begins, and her brother Jem (Phillip Alford) is ten. Their mother is dead, and they live with their father (Gregory Peck), a lawyer named Atticus Finch. One day they hear a peculiar squeak in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch...
...sometimes years in the making. This one was shot in 25 days-because it had to be if the money was to hold out. The Perrys projected each day's rushes on two sheets of shelf paper tacked to the wall of their room in the Haverford...
...Ultimate performance in society"-not just brains and grades-should be the admissions criterion of top colleges, says Headmaster Leslie R. Severinghaus of the Haverford School near Philadelphia. In the Journal of the Association of College Admissions Counselors, he warns against the "highly intelligent, aggressive, personally ambitious, and socially indifferent and unconcerned egotist." Because these self-centered bright students have "little to offer, either now or later,'' colleges should be ready to welcome other good qualities. "Who says that brains and motivated performance represent the dimensions of excellence? Is not social concern a facet of excellence...
...Haverford College, however, is still considering participation, and three members of its board of managers have been asked to review the NDEA program...
...note in the CRIMSON of September 28 your statement that after Harvard refused NDEA loans other colleges followed suit, namely Yale, Princeton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Amherst, and Reed. For the sake of the facts I should like to point out that several of these colleges rejected the NDEA program months before Harvard. Lawrence Wylie, Acting Master of Quincy House...