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...percentage of students who attended select New England private schools is inordinately high--16.4 per cent--in one of the Houses. The next highest percentage of students in that category is 9.2 per cent, and the lowest is 3.1 per cent...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: House Study Shows Large Differences | 12/4/1980 | See Source »

...Quincy House resident received a letter from President Bok last week denying a request that representatives from the Quincy Senior and Junior Common Rooms sit on the committee to select the new house master...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: Bok Refuses Student Request For Input on Quincy Master | 12/3/1980 | See Source »

...aches and pains." Adds Teacher Nelson: "She is picky, and I like that. I've heard her ask the kids to do things over that I might have let go. They respect her." Mabel Karelse, 79, has been going blind for three years, and students help her select meals at the cafeteria and read to her. In turn, she has been able to help Senior Pattie Gregory, 17, who began losing her sight at age 13. Says Pattie, who is teaching Braille to Mabel. "Someday I'm going to ask her to help me with cooking. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Achieving Gray Integration | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Mendelsohn, who will hand back the mid term papers tomorrow to the 60 students in his class will select a group of the essays, with student's permission to give the administration next week. "I don't think we, as scientists, can never be insensitive to the social needs that technology can cure for society," Mendelsohn said, adding "but we have to be careful when these needs are determined by commercial profit, and not by a broader view to social good...

Author: By John J. Moore jr., | Title: Professor Sends Student Ideas On DNA Company to Officials | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

While Edgar was typing, Nunn asked all of his 43 actors to initiate their own research projects, read the novel and select which of the 157 characters they wanted to play. Roger Rees and David Threlfall, who are, respectively and wonderfully, Nickleby and the orphan Smike, are the only two actors in the piece with only one part to play. All the others average six: usually two major roles and a gallery of minor parts. R.S.C. Designer John Napier, who made all the costumes, took Polaroid photos for reference and found at the end that he had assembled an album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Raising the Dickens in London | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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