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That desire and ability are neither so widespread nor so easy to acquire as might be supposed. When the tutoring schools were banned in 1940, and again during a recent abortive renaissance, many critics of the College made the point that the "intellectual brothels" were teaching students how to learn who had been either unwilling or unable to acquire that ability before. The simple process of knowing how to read a book or hear a lecture so that one can understand it and then repeat its contents has not been successfully achieved by every Harvard graduate...
Five hundred eleven Harvard undergraduates, of whom 384 are currently House residents, filed applications at the recent registration, which Provost Buck and Vice-President Reynolds felt were enough to make House residence feasible. Details of the plan are under consideration at present by Associate Dean Watson and the seven House masters...
...Assembly they were represented by Dr. Paul R. Hawley, former medical director of the Veterans Administration. The Blue Cross and Shield, said Hawley, if properly developed and extended, can enable people to prepay their medical costs while avoiding the disadvantages of "socialized" medicine. As proof, he cited the rapid recent growth of the two plans. Together they have 37,500,000 members; Blue Shield has increased its membership 3,500% in eight years...
Carroll Shilling, winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, and considered by many the most inspired horseman who ever held a pair of reins, has been in & out of sanitariums for alcoholism in recent years. Buddy Ensor, after losing many a bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York City. Laverne Fator, perhaps the iciest jockey who ever rode a horse, killed himself a few years ago. Tod Sloan, who made and squandered over a million dollars, ended up wheedling dimes from street crowds, billed as "the strangest dwarf in the world...
...depression, Dumaine was raked over at a congressional hearing for the way he had run the company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting down his activities in favor of more horseback riding near his Groton, Mass, home, Dumaine had a hand in running, as a director, a score of big Eastern companies...