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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famous Film Festival (Sat. 7:30 p.m., ABC). J. Arthur Rank's A Queen Is Crowned, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier...
...trouble in this area has been the two federal housing projects of New Towne Court and Washington Elms. Built in 1937 and 1941 respectively as slum clearance undertakings for families of low incomes, the developments are comprised of three-story brick and concrete apartment structures. In housing quality they rank better than any census tract in the city, but in human relations they show up very poorly. It is mostly the lower elements of society which tend to gravitate to these projects, and the more ambitious families are continually moving out. In addition, the projects crowd together a large number...
...second place is Lou Jordan of Cornell, with a 24.0 average, and behind the top three rank Dick Csencsitz, Pennsylvania, with an 18.6 average...
Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...
...report, Pusey cited the fact that each year the percentage of students on the Dean's List has grown with 40 per cent of all undergraduates achieving this rank. He emphasized "This is not to say that there are brighter or abler students in college now than there were five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which...