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...freshmen (or "freshpersons" as some feminists solemnly call them) enter college with firm ideas about what courses will prepare them for their chosen careers. Nearly everywhere, chemistry, biology, engineering and business administration classes are packed, while enrollments are dwindling in history, philosophy and the other liberal arts. Quips Tony Peyser, 20, a student in film making at U.C.L.A.: "English is the best prerequisite for unemployment." Black-studies courses are being cut back at some campuses because most black students prefer majors that lead directly to a career...
Seymour M. Peyser '34, former administrator of the Agency for International Development, will speak to the Eliot House Forum on "U.S. Private Investment in Developing Nations" at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House dining hall...
Although the possibility that anything could stop the Harrison pension remained slim indeed, Mrs. Harrison's friends sprang indignantly to her defense. Ihey denied that she had sought the pension herself, recalled that the resolution had first been introduced by New York's late Representative Theodore A. Peyser at the suggestion of "friends," had passed the House unanimously. Most agreed that Mrs. Harrison could use it. All agreed that she deserved it, for sundry reasons. Among them: 1) she had lived in the White House two years nursing her ailing Aunt Lavinia, the first Mrs. Harrison...
...gambled on a trip to Germany, studied intensively for a few months, finally hired a hall for $500. Critics then pronounced her a full-fledged artist, began to heap superlatives on her voice. Thereafter she toured widely in Europe. At the Salzburg Festival last summer Critic Herbert F. Peyser of the New York Times wrote of her as "one of the greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly feted if she had chosen to remain in Manhattan last week. Instead she preferred to hide away...
...York's Celler, Bickstein, Sirovich, Peyser, Bloom; New Jersey's Bacharach; Connecticut's Kopplemann; Pennsylvania's Ellen- bogen; Illinois' Sabath; California's Kahn