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This spring, the graduating class of small (500 students), Quaker-founded Haverford College, outside Philadelphia, decided that the hit-and-run Commencement speaker was too far removed from his audience. They invited their man to spend a week on the campus, living and arguing with undergraduates. They picked a lively companion: Robert Maynard Hutchins, brisk but aging (55) boy wonder of U.S. higher education, onetime chancellor of the University of Chicago, now president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic...
...Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany last week, music lovers heard something that was avowedly "different": the beginning of a three-day festival of music by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). It was staged by Conductor William H. Reese of the Haverford College Glee Club, partly because he wanted to avoid the "usual mishmash and hodgepodge" of choral programs, partly because from the time he was in college himself, he has been a stout Schütz admirer...
There are also two bankers. Wil liam Shacklette Ray, Loomis School, is in the credit department of the First National Bank of Memphis, Tenn. And William Elliot Vauclain, of Haverford School, is now an assistant trust investment officer for the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co., in Philadelphia...
...that point, Katchen père put his foot down on the budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government) that took him to Paris. In 1946 he played at the first UNESCO Festival and, with a pocketful of fine notices, set off on the rounds of European and Near Eastern music centers...
...years and years of training, but does he get a well-rounded education? This week, in the first comprehensive report of premedical education in the U.S., three eminent deans-Aura E. Severinghaus, associate dean of Columbia University's faculty of medicine, William E. Cadbury Jr. of Haverford and Dean Emeritus Harry Carman of Columbia College-gave their answer: "No." As far as the liberal arts are concerned, says the report, the pre-med is shortchanged...