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...Oberlin, Swarthmore, Carleton (Minn.), and Reed (Ore.) rank as the best co-educational colleges. The Tribune listed Barnard, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, and Smith behind Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe as the leading women's colleges...
Grants for graduate study abroad have been awarded to Robert W. Scrivner '57 of Kirkland House and Topeka, Kan., Stephen A. Aaron '57 of Lowell House and New York City, Eric W. Kurtz '57 of Adams House and Oberlin, Ohio; and Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana...
Last fall Oberlin College was able to accept only one out of two of those who applied. Since the 19403, Yale's applicants have jumped from 1,500 to 4,000, Harvard's have more than trebled. For the 6,000 boys who say they want to get into Dartmouth next fall, there are only 725 openings. Says Dean Emery Walker Jr. of Brown (present freshman class: 635): "Ten years from now we might have 10,000 applicants. That will be the real problem...
...know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks, "of neglecting by default other vital factors in a student's makeup?" Adds Admissions Director Robert Jackson of Oberlin: "You have to leave the door open for the Winston Churchills. It is said of him that on the basis of his school record, he wouldn't be admitted to any college today...
Married. Robert Baumle Meyner, 48, Democratic governor of New Jersey since 1954; and Helen Day (Danie) Stevenson, 28, brunette third cousin (by marriage, on the maternal side; the name Stevenson is a coincidence) of Adlai Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson, president of Oberlin College; in Oberlin, Ohio...