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...home of the three-year-old Peninsula Festival, buried among the lakeside evergreens in Door County, 65 miles northeast of Green Bay. Conductor Thor Johnson (of the Cincinnati Symphony) gathers an orchestra of 40 standout musicians for two weeks (beginning Aug. 6). All nine concerts include unfamiliar or contemporary works, and usually play to full houses...
...considerably under Karpovich's 28-year tutelage, but he much prefers to talk about his own "historical expansion" during this period. As an Eliot House tutor ("I guess I'm still affiliated there") and a lecturer in the old History 1 course, he had to assimilate multitudinous facts in unfamiliar fields of history and meanwhile to make sure that he always kept one jump ahead of his students. Indeed, during the last war Karpovich took over the whole direction of History 1, and he still recalls the experience with an intellectual shudder. An incredibly broad survey that covered all history...
...rapidly changing nature and role of science, that education carries an increasingly heavy burden. The physicist of 20 years ago, says DuBridge, would be lost in a modern laboratory. "Not only would he be unfamiliar with mesons and V-particles and bevatrons and cosmotrons, he would also be nonplussed by [such phrases as] security risk, Q-clear-ance, confidential, secret, top secret." More important, he would find that the old compartments of knowledge no longer have their old rigid meanings. At Caltech it is possible to find a top geologist, e.g., Harrison Brown, who has never taken a formal course...
...ever-changing New South is evident everywhere. Negro men and women study at famed Tuskegee Institute not far from where a few practitioners of voodoo still do a lively business. Last week Tuskegee Institute presented a scene that was unknown in the Old South and is still unfamiliar in the new. Four hundred Negro and white doctors from all over the U.S. met on the campus for the 43rd annual meeting of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society.* Ignoring segregation, they lived in the same guest houses, ate at the same tables...
With comparative scores at a minimum and sportswriters unfamiliar with the teams outside their region, the Tournament's favorite can only be the Tournament's winner...