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Tom Wolf appears to have field a Harvard weakness in the backstroke as the freshman turned in a fine medley relay leg before breaking the University record in the 200-yd. bach with a 2:02.4. Most remarkable of the freshman performances, however, were those of John Craig. Craig. participating...
The composer and conductor also reminded about his own college days--"the first most including years of my life"--and spoke of the need for scholastic to fight "the greatest danger facing us today, the tolerance of mediocrity."
"Until now, financial aid has been dispersed almost solely on the basis of scholastic merit," Jones noted in his letter to the graduate students.
"Whether we like it or not, this is a luxury we can ill afford in the future. In making effective and equitable use of limited aid resources, judgments of financial need and self-help potential must be joined with judgments of scholastic merit," he continued.
DURING THE 1960's American academic liberals underwent a painful and self-conscious transition, emerging from the quiescent fifties into a decade of constent social and political unrest--such development is telescoped in the career of Dr. Robert Coles. The atrophy of the Eisenhower years protected middle-class professionals such...