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...solemn and tense except for a smiling Prime Minister Kishi, had met to go through the motions of approving a bride who would be qualified to be Empress of Japan some day. As if to convince the council that the long (seven years) and expensive (nearly $1,000,000) search for a princess had not been a waste, the Director of the Imperial Household declared that while the Crown Prince's wishes had been considered, it was the Imperial Council who had in the end found "Miss Shoda the most suitable." So as not to lose face, everybody solemnly...
Happiness. Says famed Teacher Mark Van Doren of Columbia University: "The college teacher is devoted to the search for truth, and as such he is the envy of all those in our society who are paid to obscure or distort it. He is the only one who is paid to be as honest, as simple, and as serious as he can . . . The work is indeed hard, as it must be since its purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing...
Leland hopes to be able to start his search for Council backers before the Program for Harvard College concludes its operations, although up to the present most requests of this nature have been turned down by Massachusetts Hall...
...Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.. 45, noted the hemisphere's close ties, both economic ("It is the area where we have the largest direct private investment abroad-almost $9 billion") and historical ("Our people all came here, primarily from Western Europe, in search of freedom and opportunity...
...digging it up belongs to Conductor-Musicologist Newell Jenkins. 43, who has long had a passion for unearthing little-known works of the 18th century. Last season Jenkins launched a series of what he called Clarion Concerts at which he presented the fruits of a dusty three-year search through the libraries and conservatories of Europe. To Jenkins' own surprise, Clarion Concerts was a rousing success at the box office. Before Jenkins gets through, his subscription audience will have encountered such obscure 18th century composers as Franz Anton Rossler, The Chevalier de Saint-George and Francesco Antonio Bonporti...