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STRATFORD, Conn.--I suppose almost everyone has been put through Julius Caesar as a high-school sophomore and been forced to commit some of its speeches to memory. For all its familiarity the play remains, like Beethoven's Fifth, a rattling good work; and no one should shrink from mounting it on that account...
Cambridge announces that it will begin handing out $1 tickets for jaywalking. The Office of Economic Opportunity gives Harvard $12,000 more than it requested for its high-school aid program. Radcliffe gets a $17,000 grant which will allow it to accept more girls from low-income families...
...Left politics at Harvard and Berkeley is probably best explained by an article by Reginald E. Zelnick in the May-June issue of Dissent. Zelnick finds Berkeley a university without status compared to Eastern Ivy schools. Students freshly-arrived at Berkeley find little difference between the college and that high-school. The Berkeley student feels immediately equal to his university; entering Harvard students are almost certain to be awed. The traditions of Harvard, in effect, secure its tranquility...
...with their creation." She prefers to show fragments of many films, repeatedly stopping the action to quiz the kids on what they just saw, what they expect next. She had her pupils draw up their own narration to a filmstrip on the "Causes of the Revolution" to replace the high-school level commentary that came with it. Her fifth-grade colleague, Eleanor Cohen, normally turns off movie sound tracks, delivers her own explanations, repeats film segments so that she "can control the speed of the learning progress." She finds this far preferable to the fixed programming of educational television, which...
Four goals by freshman, Jan Rus, high-school all-America last year, weren't enough to offset a fourth quarter surge by the Queensmen. Harvard had carried a 4-4 tie into the final period...