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While Harvard is a masculine university, Summer School brings boys and girls together under the ardently defended priciples of "co-education." Three thousand students (in winter there are sixteen thousand) forego vacation. Most are here because it is easier to get into Harvard than in the winter: it's just a matter of paying. This is a way of obtaining in two months a "semi-diploma" which allows acceleration of studies, and, above all, an opportunity to stay active. As for leisure, weekends and long evenings are adequate. One gets the impression, however, that in America one never takes...
...post in Kabul, Afghanistan, these two enormous and very intelligent animals rode in state on the specially prepared rear seat of Mr. Ward's Cadillac from Nairobi to Mombasa and later, after occupying their own cabin on board ship, from Karachi to Kabul, a trip of several thousand miles...
...Eighteen thousand Japanese, buzzing with admiration, visited Tokyo's National Museum last week to see the work of an artist who died 450 years ago. Known by his painter name, "Sesshu" (Snow Boat), he is today rated as Japan's greatest landscape artist; his works are valued at up to $250,000 each, and four are classed as "national treasures." So enthusiastic were the crowds that turned out to inspect the 30 Sesshu masterpieces on view that the museum broke precedent, was open on Mondays for the first time since its opening...
...Steve Aaron would become curator of a Bureau of National Culture. The mint would present some problems, since a new currency would be necessary. A picture of Dean Bundy, however, could adorn the one dollar bill, Master Perkins the five, and John R. Thompson on the hundred. The thousand would remain bland until someone donates a new theatre. The revenue problem would be solved by a toll road on Mass. Avenue, a sales tax on the Bick, the Waldorf, Elsie's and Cahaly's, and a Casino to be instituted in Memorial Hall...
There are ten clay tennis courts at Harvard. With a ratio of one thousand students, the need for constructing more good courts is acute. For its estimated tennis-playing population of 7,000, the University's run-down facilities are perhaps the most inadequate part of its athletic plant. In an academic community that boasts athletics for all, Harvard should feel more responsibility for one of its most widely-played sports...