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...almost any standard, Neil Rudenstine is the Successful Teacher. He is friendly and witty and handsome. At 33, he is assistant professor of English at Harvard, giving his own upper-level courses in Elizabethan English Literature, as well as sharing the guidance of Hum 6 with venerable Reuben Brower. He has studied at Princeton (where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956) and Oxford (where he went as a Rhodes Scholar for three years) and Harvard (where he got his Ph.D...
...most impressive part of Rudenstine's success is the intense devotion he inspires in his students. From the grad students he guides through the esoterica of English 235 to the freshmen who slog with him through the mysteries of Hum 6, his students are uniformly enthusiastic, and their praise becomes almost monotonous...
Rudenstine's manipulation of the Hum 6 mystique has probably won him the most fans. Perched cross-legged atop a table in a dreary, third-floor Sever room, he gently probes the intricacies of Eliot and James and Shakespeare, urging his section towards the Hum 6 View of the World. It doesn't always work: the Hum 6 magic-show of extracting meaning from symbols overwhelms some students and exasperates others. But they keep coming back. "Because we love Mr. Rudenstine," a Cliffie says...
...hum. Another piece of yellow journalism. I refer, of course, to the "poll" results. "One out of every four seniors at Harvard...." The statement cries out for clarification. This excellently prepared document was not a poll but a questionnaire, as indeed the Crimson off and on terms it. The essence of a poll or survey is selection. The essence of a questionnaire is voluntary response. This was a questionnaire, answered by those seniors, and only those seniors, who so wished. The questionnaire sought to discover the extent of potential draft resistance among seniors, but more than half the class...
...machine is minuscule: 21½ in. long by 27 in. wide, and only 370 Ibs. But listen to it hum. Bolted into a fragile frame of piping and Plexiglas, it generates 330 h.p., sounds like a Dixieland band, and last week propelled Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 31 (TIME cover, July 9, 1965), to a record average speed of 107 m.p.h. in the South African Grand Prix, his 25th Grand Prix victory-breaking the alltime career record set by Argentina's now-retired Juan Manuel Fangio...