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...insults and abuse greet both Negroes throughout the university. But Trillin, a Yale graduate who writes for the New Yorker, does not dwell on these incidents. Instead he chooses to report the disillusionment and sense of loss that two Negroes experience when they leave the comfort of high-school success in an all-Negro environment to enter Georgia as symbols of The Cause...
...aggressive members of the industry pay off hospital personnel for the names of expectant mothers that they can sell to diaper-service companies and baby photographers. The child joins a list in his own right the first time he sends in a cereal box top, makes it again at high-school graduation when his name is gleaned from a yearbook or supplied by a cap-and-gown manufacturer. From then on, every time he registers his car, makes the telephone directory, buys a home, rents an apartment, joins a book club, contributes to a charity, shops by mail or takes...
These are strong words. Were Conant's suggestions to be taken seriously, they could touch off a faculty controversy about what constitutes a proper academic program that would make the fight between academicians and educators look like a high-school debate. Though Conant alludes to the well known sensitivity of the academic establishment to curriculum changes, he hardly reckons with the reaction his proposals could arouse...
...original Wheaties ad-neat, well-mannered, studious, and absolute murder on a football field. By the time he was a senior at Cincinnati's Roman Catholic Purcell High School (B student, nine-letterman, president of the student council), the whole city was talking about his Saturday afternoon heroics. "Purcell had a reputation for being a school where the quarterback never got dirty," says one of his high-school coaches. "After all, you don't carry coal in a Rolls-Royce...
...life on prep school graduates who already have their eyes set on careers and places in society and a system for graduates of public or private schools who have been-propelled to Harvard by their unusual ability and the doctrine that "talent is our most important resource." If the Houses are to be more than the fraternities of the intellectuals, they must now find a way open themselves to the non-academic world. The academic profession is only one of many devoted to use of the mind, but this is hard to remember when every intelligent high-school graduate...