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Social Filter. L'Academie Maxim's was founded two and a half years ago by Maggie Vaudable, wife of the restaurant's present owner, to instruct a carefully selected group of girls in "the special sense of savoir-vivre that the French have prided themselves on since Louis XIV." Though the school claims to be open to all girls sufficiently familiar with the French language and culture to benefit from-not simply get along in-the all-French classes, in practice the students are recruited through a social filtering system that stretches through Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners: School for Wives | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Members of the council had previously objected to remaining in the NSA because of the political activities of the organization. At last week's meeting Evan A. Davis '66, had suggested that the HCUA might sponsor delegates, but instruct them to abstain from voting on controversial political issues. The council placed no such restriction on the delegates, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HCUA Votes to Retain Controversial NSA Ties | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

Evan A. Davis '66 suggested that the HCUA might sponsor delegates, but instruct them to abstain from voting on controversial political issues. Other council members felt, however, that if Harvard stays in NSA, it should "stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HCUA Postpones Decision On National Student Assn. | 3/20/1963 | See Source »

Four teachers will instruct in six-room thatched-roof schoolhouses in the bush country. They may also help towns-people to enlarge the schools, and will probably have to build their own huts. Others will live in community centers, teaching reading and writing to natives undergoing detribalization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Project Tanganyika Now Has Almost Half of $45,000 Budget | 3/9/1963 | See Source »

...agricultural program works to alleviate peasant poverty through land redistribution, technical agricultural assistance, and financial credit. The government, Cardenas said, has sent social workers into the field to instruct the peasants in crop rotation, the use of chemical fertilizers, and harvesting techniques...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Venezuelan Says Land Reforms Prevent Progress of Extremists | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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