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Successful Technique. Usually, the best way to land a donor is by appealing to his desire for intellectual distinction. As Columbia College Publications Editor George Keller puts it: "You can feel almost like a Medici prince-personally responsible for a distinguished professor's livelihood and scholarship." One successful technique is that used by California's tiny Claremont Men's College, which has set up ten endowed professorships since 1958. "The best way to do it is to take the great teacher who will occupy the chair to meet the prospective donor," contends Claremont Presidential Assistant John Payne...
...League, according to Miss Switzer "takes a pessimistic line: the student should not be admitted if he will have too much trouble adjusting to [the life of] the college community." Miss Switzer conceded that there have been exceptions. "After all," she said, "Helen Keller went to Radcliffe...
...blind people are students and teachers at the Perkins School for the Blind, a private school with classes from kindergarten through senior high school. Perkins is Helen Keller's Alma Mater. It was the first school for the blind in the United States, and the first to educate a blind-deaf child...
...candidly reports that the Mormon hierarchy appeared ready to endorse the John Birch Society earlier this year, but after pressure from one group of church elders, "stepped back from the abyss." In an implicit criticism of the church's policy of barring Negroes from its priesthood, Mormon Karl Keller describes the profound spirituality of the American Negro in an essay on a civil rights project in Tennessee...
...quietly marked her 86th birthday at her home in Easton, Conn., 27 states joined in celebrating Helen Keller Day. Among the many good wishes was one from Lady Bird Johnson: "It must give you enormous satisfaction to look back on what you have achieved, which is nothing less than a Magna Carta of opportunity for the handicapped. We are all very much your debtor in a way that cannot be repaid...