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Small classes too have their hazards. Students often cannot take a desired course because of strict limitation on enrollment. With fewer than ten students in the average class, there is a disquieting pressure to participate, and the result may be an excessive premium on verbosity. Translated into a pressure to contribute, however, this discomfort too can be intellectually beneficial. The educational policy proves immensely valuable to those that can adapt to it, but the transition from high school is difficult. Some girls never quite make...
...just below the top. Jack Benjamin, Ralph Perry, Don Kirkland, and Tony Field should be able to finish in the first ten. Kirkland, especially, may do well on the four and one-half mile UMass course, since the longer layouts at Franklin Park and New York placed a larger premium on endurance and experience...
There were other reasons for the smiles in Washington. The new bonds promptly sold at a premium on a when-issued basis. This reduced their yield to buyers to 4.79%, but it also stirred interest in other Government bonds, perked up the market to the best level in weeks. Though nearly $9 billion of Treasury securities fall due Nov. 15 and must be refinanced, they continued strong on the hunch that if the Government comes back with another 5% issue next month, the holders of these notes would receive valuable subscription rights...
...Berlitz cram course in Russian, then flew off to see what makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been coming home quite late." "Ludmilla and Serge are in love and want to get married, but they...
...place students in their proper academic positions with mathematical certainty: 8 points for attending class, a loss of 16 points for missing Sunday chapel, etc. Quincy himself took Puritanic glee in toting up the figures weekly. The Scale of Merit, however, proved a dismal failure, for it placed a premium upon attendance and not upon learning. Perhaps the system fitted well with Quincy's preconceptions of the ideal college course, which he described as "thorough drilling." Again, the president's personal notions triumphed over common sense...