Word: houghtons
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...corrective to variable grades from their schools. But the SAT has been a target of educators and laymen alike in the long-standing battle over the value of standardized tests. Now a new book subjects the exam to the most withering blast yet. In None of the Above (Houghton Mifflin; $16.95), Author David Owen charges that the SAT is badly conceived, badly written, easy to beat if you know how, and all but worthless as a measure of preparation for college...
Jimmy Carter rightly remembers the Camp David accords as the crowning achievement of his presidency, and he would like to ensure that they do not come to naught. In his new book, The Blood of Abraham, to be published next week by Houghton Mifflin, Carter traces the history of Middle East conflicts from biblical times and implores the Reagan Administration to make a more strenuous effort to resolve them...
...major item in the current wave of interest is the finely wrought new biography by Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Houghton Mifflin; 690 pages; $24.95). A professor of creative writing at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Mott, 54, succeeded the late John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), the original biographer named by Merton's literary executors. The author provides some fresh details about the 30 years that Merton treated in Seven Storey Mountain, but the book's most fascinating contribution involves the second half of Merton's life. The executors gave Mott...
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Samuel Johnson 125 scholars gathered at Houghton Library for the presentation of two academic papers on the life and work the 18th century English poet and critic...
Boston College: Grant 3-2-8; Madeira 10-2-22; Sweet 1-2-4; O'Doy 5-0-10; Thornton 3-2-8; Houghton 4-4-12; Sullivan 0-0-0; Roach 0-2-2; Haubrich 1-1-3; Robinson 2-0-4; Gervals 1-0-2; Hart 0-0-0; Totals...