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Delmar Leighton appealed strongly for progress toward tutorial for non-Honors students, in his final report as Dean of Harvard College, released yesterday...
...Leighton the "best setting" for such tutorial rests in the Houses, which must provide "suitable substitutes for the strengthened tutorial offered to Honors men." Citing the suggestion for such instruction in last year's report of the Committee on Educational Policy, he added, "it is not clear whether tutorial instruction of the usual kind, or some kind of modified group tutorial, or even merely an advisory relationship was contemplated." Leighton left the choice up to the tutors and Masters...
...Faculty last year omitted any such proposals from its vote on the CEP plan, a move of which Leighton said, "one cannot complain . . . but one may regret it. The CEP report, while offering loop-holes for interested Juniors who have failed their Honors qualifying tests, does not offer a "hopeful" indication that many will take advantage of this. "No provision is made for non-Honors Seniors," he reiterated...
That increase in the quality of academic ability which the CEP report reflects and tried to channel is perhaps a cause of the increase in the number of "voluntary withdrawals" from the College. In the past two years these have risen from 75 to 145, a fact which Leighton sees as perhaps "a reflection of mounting emotional tensions...
...Federal Trade Commission last week issued a progress report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60 companies have learned their lesson the hard way. Box score: 33 complaints, 21 orders to cease and desist, and six consent agreements. Most of the actions (32) were against furriers, long among the most obvious of the price packers, but the campaign also extended to sellers of sewing machines, perfumes, women...