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...Navy chaplain, Hester went to high school in Long Beach, Calif., simultaneously earned a summa in humanities and a magna in history at Princeton ('45), served in World War II as a Marine Corps Japanese-language officer. Then he found himself bossing "the implementation of democratization" of Japanese schools in Fukuoka Prefecture. "Ridiculous," he now calls it: "One boy 22 years old was trying to do a job for 3,000,000 people." Hester went on to a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, where he took a doctorate in international affairs; then he tried advertising research. Recommended by impressed elders...
...Have Not Known Him."Then Eisenhower, whose funnybone is about as small as his wishbone is large, had essayed some heavy sarcasm at the expense of the magna cum laude from Smith. The Peace Corps, he said, is a "juvenile experiment. If you want to take a trip to the moon, why not send a Peace Corps up there? It is an undeveloped country...
...girl was Margery Jane Michelmore, 23, a magna cum laude graduate of Smith College (1960), who had gone to Nigeria with 36 other Peace Corps pioneers to teach. Although she had undergone seven weeks' training at Harvard to prepare for her new life, Margery was shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto...
...Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place when every student at entrance was a potential magna or summa man? Or would a precocious academic careerism tend to corrupt the young and inhibit breadth of interest and the disinterested search for understanding and enrichment? Would academic competitiveness be greatly increased and tensions, anxieties and frustrations grow unbearably, particularly for those able students who, perhaps only because they dared to take a course outside their field or had bad luck with an instructor or two, found themselves
Bender was born in Elkart, Ind., and an his career in education in 1933 a public school teacher in Goshen. He received the A.B. degree magna laude from Harvard in 1927, and earned his M.A. here three years later. He was awarded an honorary LLD. degree at Commencement exercises last year. Fathers' College Status Admitted Students Class 1956 1964 Harvard (No.) 206 219 Harvard (%) 17.0 18.1 Other College (No.) 555 772 Other College (%) 45.4 63.7 No College (No.) 459 220 No College (%) 37.6 18.2 Har. Son Applicants 282 425 Har. Son Admitted 37.2 56.5 % of Har. Son Applicants...