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Princeton, Oberlin Delay Decision...
...find that in Currier Gallery in Manchester, N.H., you have a masterpiece of the abstract period of Picasso. The show lets one realize that throughout the country in so many smaller museums there are masterpieces−the Titian in Omaha, the Delacroix in Chapel Hill, the Terbrugghen from Oberlin...
...historical position of the Seventh-day Adventists. But militant Negro Adventists, banded together in the Laymen's Leadership Conference, charged that church practice is "unChristian" compared with officially stated policy. Case in point: Burrell Scott, 38, building contractor and leading lay official of the Negro Adventist Church of Oberlin, Ohio, journeyed to San Francisco to register a protest that his daughter Erica, 13, had been rejected for admittance to the Adventists' Mount Vernon Academy in Mount Vernon, Ohio. (The school was all white last year, will admit one Negro this fall.) Complained Scott testily: "Some of our ministers...
Merton Joseph Peck, 36, came to the Pentagon last July after teaching for five years at the Harvard Business School, now is assistant deputy comptroller for systems analysis under Dr. Enthoven. A graduate of Oberlin College and Harvard. Economist Peck, who looks strikingly like a younger McNamara, first got interested in defense problems at Harvard during a Ford Foundation study of the economic aspects of weapons procurement. Says he: "Defense is really the dominant problem of our times. If you're concerned about the world, naturally you get interested in this." His specialty is non-nuclear ground forces...
...prestige that enables it to select its student body from eight times as many applicants as can be accommodated." He cities the dominant position of its library (I might point out that the library last year spent $200 per student, compared with Harvard's $317, Yale's $241, Oberlin's $115, and the less than $100 at most state universities; of all the institutions, only a small portion spent more than $50 per capita). He praises the rapid expansion of Brandeis' graduate program, and the absence of scholarships for athletes. "Brandeis established itself in the very center of academic affluence...