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Ballyhoo number one, announced yesterday, is a male beauty contest, sponsored by HDC to attract attention to their forthcoming production of "Winterset." Miss Chili Williams, HDC announced yesterday, will select "Mr. Harvard of 1946" at a contest tomorrow afternoon outside of the Pi Eta Club, corner Boylston and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...Select some hot, humid Monday in late June or early July, when man's faith in man reaches its perspiring nadir, to publicize "The Biggest Damn Fool of the Year...
...Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann). As a full professor, Spencer will earn $9,600; the Boylston Chair itself pays only in prestige, though legend accords its holder the right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard...
...Give the people control of education, by popularly elected boards of education in each prefecture-with power to establish new schools, license teachers and select textbooks. Each prefecture would have an Allied civilian educator as full-time adviser, reducing Mombusho (the Department of Education) to a mere administrative agency. The Army has been using Mombusho as a transmission belt for its directives, encouraging what Dr. George D. Stoddard, chairman of the U.S. mission, called "the main obstacle in . . . re-educating Japan for democracy . . . Japan's tendency to work from the top down...
...been weighed and found wanting Verily, the Provost charges, Harvard has become a Mecca for "precocious, intellectually over-stimulated" boys, while their socially superior classmates "head for Yale or Princeton". In mute anticipation the reviled "brain" stands by to watch this policy carried out, now that the Provost may select fastidiously from the hordes of new applicants for his better balance in the student body...