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...December, the Lowthers' pyramid started falling apart. In an apparent attempt to gain another base for securing grant money, Lowther tried to take over tiny (445 students) Prescott College, an experimental school in Arizona. The college was $440,000 in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Thus, when Lowther agreed to pay the school's operating costs in return for control of its board and operating capital, the college thought it had found a savior and tentatively agreed to the deal. But soon $105,000 in foundation checks to the college bounced, and-for the first time...
Robin E. Piehl Prescott, Ariz...
...beached mammals had no food in their stomachs and were suffering from serious infestations of parasitic worms in their middle ears and sinuses. According to Marine Biologists James G. Mead of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History in Washington and John H. Prescott of Boston's New England Aquarium, the worms had apparently been taken in along with meals of fish or squid. Once entrenched, they may have interfered with the whales' highly sensitive, sonar-like echo-location system, which enables them to spot schools offish and other objects. The whales' hearing...
...Prescott's major failing, aside from not placing his experiences as a freshman in some kind of a context, is the incredible mash he makes of sex. Evidently he was not too good at handling the business as a freshman 20 years ago, and in the interim has not made much improvement. A Darkening Green does not begin to explain the sexual problems facing his generation, all it does is show that (a) they existed (b) they obsessed Prescott perhaps 75 per cent of the time (c) they warped his approach to Harvard and (d) they made him an incredibly...
Understanding this display of exhibitionism is difficult. The motive for it is not clear. In the last paragraphs of the book, Prescott tells of his great aunt describing him by saying "you are used to thinking a long time about things and keeping them to yourself." Perhaps that is true, but it is unfortunate that Prescott did not keep these things to himself indefinitely. They certainly are not fit to be read...