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...story was written by Education Editor Annalyn Swan and researched by Reporter-Researcher Ellie McGrath. Both are recent college graduates who found that their public school years did not prepare them well for what was to come. "I hadn't read enough classics and had never taken essay exams before I got to college," says Swan, who went from Biloxi High in Mississippi to Princeton. "My high school and those we visited for this story don't anticipate the challenges of the outside world; they seem to equate excellence with elitism." McGrath, a 1970 Gloucester (Mass.) graduate, concurs...
...story, Swan flew out to Coos Bay, where she sat in on classes and interviewed students along with Los Angeles Correspondent Edward Boyer, a former high school and college English and journalism teacher. Occasionally mistaken for a student s Swan found the teen-agers eager to talk. When she asked a class if three or four would like to join her for dinner, 13 newspaper staffers showed up. In Iowa City, Midwest Correspondent Anne Constable found that students and faculty at West High were so excited by the attention that they made TIME'S coverage the subject...
...will be Bok's tenth year in the College presidency and Bok, this source says, has mentioned to fellow administrators that he will stay in his present post for only ten years. Although that intention is far from definite, the completion of the drive would be a fitting swan song for a departing president...
...Honolulu. But he journeyed to Dartmouth for the summer session, a regular academic term in the college's new full-year calendar, for a special purpose: to inaugurate the Vernon Visiting Professorship of Biography, the only chair in the country devoted exclusively to biography. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan attended the class and reported...
...business and academia. Shucking the traditional snobbery of university scientists toward their colleagues in industry, professors gladly advise Triangle researchers, while the private scholars in turn teach courses at the universities. "Teaching a course forces me to go through the [scientific] literature and stay up to date," says A.G. Swan, who instructs grad students at N.C. State in addition to his duties as president of the research center for Becton, Dickinson & Co. People who work in the enclave like the quiet, hassle-free atmosphere. Says a chemist: "This is the southern part of heaven...