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...Lennie was the life of a thousand parties. "I just ran for the piano," he recalls, "as soon as I got in the door, and stayed there until they threw me out. It was as though I didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...
...triumph of "Ten Thousand...
...made by each department on the basis of the thirty-three formal half-courses completed (thirteen in the freshman year, including General Education Ahf; eight in the sophomore and junior years, four in the fall term of the senior year); the average of grades on the thirty-five thousand words devoted to his field and the ten thousand to distribution; and his showing on the general examination...
...that society." But the School has chosen, in order to fulfill this aim and its corollary, the development of basic administrative skills, a single method. This approach--the technique that has made the School famous--is the Case Method. It involves the study, one after another, of some one thousand individual administrative problems, such as the firing of an incompetent worker, which the student must meet as if he were the responsible administrator. This method, it is true, turns out perfected pragmatists who are able to deal with the problems at hand efficiently and intelligently. But does the Case Method...
College enrollment in the United States this fall has reached a record total of nearly three million students according to a report issued by the Federal Government yesterday. The ten thousand men of Harvard constitute only about three tenths of one percent of the total...