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Five-year-old John Muir College* at Pasadena (enrollment: 2,000) has no more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...
Although National Scholarships and recent alumni activity have already reached many new areas, the feeling still persists that Harvard is not getting its full quota of the men who are outstanding "leaders" as well as scholars...
...past, over 700,000 students have been deferred for scholastic reasons. Military requirements of the Japanese occupation and our expanding army have increased the draft quota, the spokesman said. The new scholastic deferment feet was designed to reduce rather than increase the number of men receiving student deferments, he stated...
Knowing that his colt was bred to stay, and hoping to prove his Derby caliber, Rutchick winter-raced the Count in Florida, where he ran in good company but without much success. As a builder-upper, Rutchick supplemented the colt's hay and oats with a daily quota of four ounces of imported Italian olive oil ("for plenty of vitamins"). The Count laps...
...worth in the teaching profession is measured largely by his competence as a scholar. His tutoring ability counts for little. Unfortunately this concern over advancement carries into course teaching as well. New faculty members want to show their lecturing ability and often insist on teaching their full quota of half courses every year--again at the expense of tutorial...