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...Quiz Whiz...
MARGARET DE Lucco Lakewood, Ohio flSays Quiz Whiz Van Doren: "I don't know and I don't care...
...other words, the lecture system bears only occasional relevance to President Lowell's cherished principle of self-education. The tutorial plan was an essential part of that idea, and the House system its natural vehicle. For above all, the tutor is not intended to be another lecturer or quiz master, but the original contact from which informal intellectual relationships develop...
...quiz business two challengers confronted Van Doren. Eleven-year-old Leonard Ross of Tujunga, Calif., an astoundingly precocious know-it-all about the stock market, moved ahead of Van Doren as a money winner by adding the jackpot of The $64,000 Challenge to his take of $100,000 from The Big Surprise. And CBS's I Love Lucy, which NBC hopes to jar out of its five-year supremacy, still kept a narrow lead of five Trendex rating points over Twenty One. But as Van Doren turned down movie offers and sweated out his weekly decision whether...
...midst of lecturing in the U.S., Sir John Tresidder Sheppard, former provost of King's College, Cambridge University, issued a blunt warning to U.S. literature teachers. "This custom you have of the quiz." said he, "is very dangerous. To read with a view of being examined is impious. It's wicked! It's impossible to read with happiness when you're looking out for what the old boy, or the old girl, is going...