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Yale moved a step in that direction last month when a faculty committee recommended junking the tender-care treatment for freshmen that was aimed at soothing first-year trauma, and urged early research opportunities for gifted students. To increase "learned men in our society," the faculty wants qualified students to earn M.A.s along with B.A.s at the end of four years. As it is, Yale abounds with enterprising young scholars. Not untypical is Senior Nicholas J. Gubser, 23, founder of the Anthropology Club, who recently spent a 15-month leave living with an Eskimo family in Arctic Alaska. Last week...
That they concentrate on technique other than trauma does not mean that they are oblivious to the element hazard, however. They, like the beginners, know that accidents can happen...
...great raconteur, Manuel reveals himself as an intelligent picaro, with a tragic marriage which ended when his wife died and his mistress married someone else, leaving him with children whom he refuses to care for. Before this trauma, he had lived through a mixed childhood, marrying at 15, but still fatally attracted to his first love. After it, he attempts to start over as a laborer in California, only to return to Mexico City and a life of shady dealings on the open market, gambling, and drink...
...that her life here was typical, and that is doubtful indeed. Most 'Cliffies are not morally bullied by dead Puritan ghosts. Few girls I know make "turgid references" to the "totality of experience," nor do many sing themselves "to near collapse" over Bach. Radcliffe is not a four-year trauma for everybody, nor, as Miss Sayres claims, do "even the gentlest girls have turbulent private lives...
Naturally, every foresighted bowling alley offers free lessons for children. In today's family-styled alley, parents no longer worry about evil companions, and the only childhood trauma is the gutter ball and a bad hook. And chances are that Mommy can straighten out these problems faster than Daddy...