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Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
Princeton men who don't like the food in Commons can get even by boycotting Howard Johnson's roadside restaurants of 28 flavor fame. They have been eating his meals at the College's main dining halls since...
Though Princeton students claim that "Howard Johnson's was never like this at home," the administration is quite satisfied with the set up. Johnson's can run the dining halls at less cost to students than Princeton could, and the "family style" serving enables over 240 students to earn full board as waiters and bussboys...
Miss St. Denis' art seems to me a secondary one. She is probably without equal in this country in her hand-and-arm technique--it seems like a form of withcraft the way she can make her arms turn into writhing cobras, or her hands become slowly-opening lotus blossoms--and it is no less fascinating to see her make a piece of fabric tell a story. But all of these things seem to belong to the decorative arts, not to the creative. However, every dancer, indeed every interpretative artist, could still learn much from her, as many...
...Like every other college and university, Harvard and Radcliffe are having their troubles in the economic downdrift. Neither is feeling as bard a pinch as many a U.S. school, but each is facing the same worries. Gifts, invested endowment, and, in some cases, tuition incomes are sliding downward, but wages, salaries, and equipment costs are still clinging to inflation-high levels. In other words, the "cost of education" is too high for an increasingly large segment of America's educational institutions...