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...their dispatch, once work was begun, in no sense atones for the years of slumber. Yet, of greater long-range importance, the Provost has kept Harvard's program clean. He has not perverted it, as even many Ivy League colleges have done, into a vacuum pump, sucking at every high-school football field, swimming pool, and baseball diamond, specking to relieve athletic deficits by cheapening education. Now and again, there may be violations of the scholarship first policy, but whatever pressure exists for recruiting an athletic elite, one may be sure, does not come from University Hall. The result...
...Director George (Shane) Stevens: "[Wide-screen] is a process ideally suited for high-school commencement photographs...
...high-school boy, he was a laggard student, liked most to swim and tramp in the mountains. He played football fairly well, but he gave up field sports when he was accidentally hit on the head by a South Pasadena shotputter...
Chicago's Allstate Insurance Co., a Sears, Roebuck subsidiary and third largest of the independents, also chopped its rates. Premiums on cars driven by high-school youths in 44 states will be shaved 15%, provided each youngster completes an auto safety course of 30 classroom hours and six hours behind the wheel (while more than 6,000 of the nation's 25,000 high schools offer such courses, only 350,000 of the 2,000,000 students who come of driving age each year take them...
...loved animals and raised hamsters with tender care. He was a good swimmer, and he played on the high-school junior varsity football team. He liked children and was in constant demand as a baby sitter. His father was a little disappointed after his son finished high school last summer because Fred insisted on enlisting in the Marines instead of going to college. But 18-year-old Fred was a sight to warm any father's heart when he came home on a ten-day leave from Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was tanned, soldierly, and as polite and thoughtful...