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Rankings of the top ten courses are Ec 1, 635; Hum 2 and Math 1a, 526 each; Hum 5, 483 Soc Sci 1, 459; Comp Lit 166, 430; English 123, 364; Chem 1, 356; History 169, 345; and Government...
Religion is less in the air at Kenyon (Episcopalian), although the college has its own divinity school, and its 500 students are required to attend chapel. A faculty member has defined the place of religion as "a part of education, like English, biology and math, but certainly a more important part than the others." Despite these points, one official of Kenyon frankly admits: "The Episcopalians and the other major denominations have fellowship groups which are sneered at by about half the campus...
Bernice the Breadwinner. After Harvard, Cozzens hibernated in Canada for a while on a publisher's handout of $15 a week, finished a mawkish Elizabethan historical romance (Michael Scarlett), taught some American sugar planters' children English and math in Cuba, junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14-year-old polio victim. Later, he drew on his Cuban impressions to write two more apprentice novels, Cockpit and The Son of Perdition, unlikely tales of tropic adventure. In Ask Me Tomorrow, Cozzens used his European experiences for a crisply satiric self-portrait, complete with a characteristic blast...
Died. Edgar Odell Lovett, 86, longtime (1908-46) president of Houston's Rice Institute, who was teaching math and astronomy at Princeton when its president, Woodrow Wilson, nominated him for the Texas post; in Houston...
Princeton has met the problem by requiring real competence in either a foreign language or in mathematics, and something along this line might be put in here, though there seems to be little current demand for more math instruction. Or the requirement might just be raised, on both the placement tests and the level of course to be passed. At least one year of a foreign literature might be demanded...