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...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has decided to investigate the possibility of religious prejudice in the practices of the Law School's Placement Office...
...article in the Law School's student newspaper, the Law Record, prompted the study. In the article, Miss Eleanor Appel, director of the Placement Office, said that "the Jewish boy is slower to receive an offer than his twin who is not Jewish...
...bypass the formal agencies and deal with a doctor who delivers an illegitimate child. The costs run from $1,000 to $2,000; the adoptive parents usually pay the mother's hospital bills, plus a lawyer's fees for drawing up legal adoption papers. "Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications. If, as often happens, the natural mother knows who the new parents are, she can subsequently turn up and try to reclaim her child...
This impressive ideal was implemented in a program of year-long integrated courses, which could be passed by a comprehensive examination or passed out of in initial placement tests. Members of the College faculty devoted themselves to the preparation of the syllabi for these unique courses. Hutchins planned for an emphasis on method rather than content so that the student would develop, with the professor, a technique of critical analysis rather than a list of memorized facts. A Humanities course would not attempt to familiarize students with a wide historical range of "the greats" of literature or art. Instead...
...Walt Whitman-like momentum and in the obvious abundance of his love the potential power to create a new propriety, to make today's errors tomorrow's principles. Specifically, Forman often neglects to "place" his scenes properly in space. It is hard to lay down principles by which proper placement can be achieved, but by negative example, the color cartoon often violates such principles deliberately, for humorous effect. Thus, when Tom or Jerry gets flattened by a train steaming out of a direction we never knew existed, our laughter is more complicated than that we give a clown's pratfall...