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Once outside, Sarah Lawrence students are not at a loss for things to do. "B'ville," Scarsdale, Yonkers, and the "City," provide no end to extra-curricular activities. Bronxville's most patronized joint is the "Greasy Spoon," a small place on the other side of the tracks, where the clientelle varies from cops and switchmen to college students and their friends. Although no "intoxicants" are allowed on campus. New York State is not dry, and 18 is the legal age for drinking. Local establishments, The Tap, Barge, Maxl's and many others, provide a convenient rendezvous for dates...
Alexander Clark, assistant director of the office, thinks the "100-percenters" are wrong, but for different-reasons. He asks the basic question: "Are you going to spoon-feed your man with a lot of jobs that you hand to him on a platter, or are you going to train him so he can go out and find a job for himself...
...Spoon-feeding, Clark feels, is way out of line with Harvard's whole teaching tradition. "From the day a man gets here," he says, "he is told he will have to turn himself into a tough-minded, independent thinker. He starts going to his courses and finds his only big 'must' is being present at examinations. He must arrange his whole home-work schedule himself, as well as almost everything else he does...
...Bonn. For HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four-bedroom duplexes, and offer three kinds of decor: Greenwich Village modern, heavy German, or imitation French classical. Rent: free...
School days brought spoon-fed indoctrination. Sample: at the end of each drawing class, the teacher would draw "a big, five-pointed star on the blackboard, which we had to copy . . . This was called 'the bringing of the revolutionary element into the subject...