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...them just three or four years old, watch those in the classes ahead of them. After a couple of months, they are given empty, miniature violin cases and chopsticks for bows, to get the feel of what they will be doing later. Students graduate to a violin, one-sixteenth normal size, and finally to the real thing. Simple, efficient and, more important, effective. Says Suzuki: "You can call me chief of an amateur violinist mass-production plant...
...edges of the curriculum. A wide variety of lectures and symposia has brought an exciting array of scholars here to talk on topics ranging from "Problems and Progress for Chinese Women," to this week's talk by Prof. Natalie Davis of Princeton on "The Sacred and Conjugal Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Lyons...
...certainly not one to regard Salazar as anything less than a god," says the matter-of-fact Schlesinger, who pulled up alongside the champion for a few moments in the race's sixteenth mile...
...north of the site of last September's gas discovery, so a 17-story rig is now pushing a drilling bit deep into a cornfield 150 yds. beyond their back door. If the drillers strike it rich, so will Neil and Alice; the couple will get a one-sixteenth share of the production. -By Christopher Byron...
...ARBOR. Mich.--The University of Michigan this week unveiled a new formula for determining which students may take limited enrollment courses in mechanical engineering: Divide each student's grade point average (GPA) by four, multiply by one-sixteenth of his total credit hours, multiply again by the number of terms he has studied at the university, raise to the .585 power, add the student's total number of credit hours divided by 96. subtract one, and multiply...