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...Largest single group to receive degrees other than the graduating Seniors were the 429 students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, followed by a Business School Class of 361 members. The School of Engineering awarded 162 degrees, the Medical School 131, Law School 126, Public Health 85, Education 36, Design 30, Public Administration 29, Divinity 20, and Dental Medicine...
...capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru. Los Angeles ("Iowa with palms") is the world's second largest Mexican city...
...Harvard. The sheer size of the undergraduate body as well as its unfamiliar composition have taxed the ingenuity of the Administration from President Conant to the baby deans. Books, instructors, and room space have been in short supply. The effort to maintain high educational standards while serving the largest number of students in Harvard history has put the College to the test. And it has not been found wanting...
...printer has not yet been definitely selected for next year's volume, which will be the largest of 50 Albums published by the graduating classes. However, J. Anthony Lewis '48 and Richard A. Green '47, the co-chairmen, have asserted that the books will be in the hands of class members before next year's Commencement...
...nation's top child psychologists, New York State Commissioner of Education, chairman of the U.S. Education Mission to Japan, and one of five U.S. delegates to UNESCO. Last week, after ten months on the job, he was inducted as president of the University of Illinois, second largest...