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Our support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and possibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of...
Liquor is a steady seller. "Everything goes at Christmastime," said a Varsity Liquor Shop clerk, pointing to the newly filled shelves. A Harvard Provisions salesman called Jack Daniels Sour Mash popular. "And we can't get enough of it," he added.
Storm Center (Columbia) makes reading seem nearly as risky a habit as dope. Bette Davis, a peppery, small-town librarian, moves like Lady Bountiful among the worshipful peasants in her reading room, opening their purblind eyes to the treasure trove on the shelves around them. One book among the thousands...
Presto!-the nation's drugstores suddenly were deluged by unhappy fatties, who bought up dextrose supplies in the earnest hope that they had at last found the unfindable-a way to deflate abdominal tires without leaving themselves hungry. Dextrose, used in a few baby formulas and for intravenous feeding...
Last week a robust Food & Drug Administration celebrated its 50th anniversary. Each year it passes judgment on the edibility, potability or safety of products worth more than $60 billion. Each week it removes an average of 98½ tons of contaminated food from the market−enough to feed poisonous...