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High Quality Education. Another overworked term-"high quality education" -defies Fels's definition. "I have had to go beyond The College Handbook to find a definition of this most important and yet puzzling phrase . . . Now, at last, the phrase has been defined by the presidents of Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts . . . 'By high quality education.' say the four presidents, 'is meant a type of education which is equivalent to that which each of our institutions offer...
...Williams College, which shares the cultural advantages of Bennington, Smith and Mount Holyoke...
Mecca to Arafat. On the eighth day came the final stage of the pilgrimage-the 15-mile walk to the valley of Arafat, where all hadjis must be present at the same time to listen to prayers recited on Mount Arafat. The temperature that day was well over 100°, and the old and weak were dropping everywhere. Tubs of water were available for dunking heat-exhaustion victims. "Even if they don't recover," said one veteran, "they are perfectly happy, because they have died on a hadj.'' The death rate for this year's pilgrimage...
Last week, Ahmed Murad still glowed with the grace his hadj had brought him. "It was a gift of God to see all those people around Mount Arafat," he said. "There was no me and no you, no Abraham, no Jesus, no Mohammed. Just God alone...
With a $10,000, two-unit house in mind and $2,500 in pocket, a budding operator can borrow $7,500 and mount the first rung of the realty ladder. Two years later, according to Nickerson, the operator should have $5,800 in hand and be able to borrow $17,400 for a four-unit dwelling. By virtually geometrical progression, this mounts to $1,187,195 in 20 years. Arguing from the low foreclosure rate, Nickerson claims that an average man with "average luck" has a 400-to-1 chance of succeeding in real estate. By contrast, "Fifty percent...