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...curriculum at Putney, then, goes far beyond the usual academic and athletic program of secondary school. Putney seeks to bring out all of the best qualities of the student, and endeavors to supply as complete an educational experience as possible without regimenting every minute into planned activity...
...federalized National Guardsmen and 137 cops. Two days before, as Central High seniors marched away from their baccalaureate service, a white youth was arrested for spitting in the face of a Negro girl. But from the white parents gathered for the graduation of their children, there was only the usual low rustle of voices as Green, the only senior among the nine Negroes who entered Central High last September, got his diploma. Prospect for Scholar Green: four years of study at Michigan State under a full-tuition scholarship, leading to work...
...Plus 2=What? Now that Pilot Brett had the feel of it, we tried some experiments. With the plane refueled, we headed back to the acrobatic area. Brett's usual rear-seat man, ist Lieut. Arthur Brattkus, had prepared a mental-alertness test for me during our coffee break. On the back pages of a scratch pad he had written three elementary problems in arithmetic. These represented a mild foretaste of what a space pilot might have to do in the weightless state. Would my gravity-free brain be clear enough to solve them...
...miserable were the widow Dufresne (Jo Van Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...
This year, Commencement, in addition to its usual implications, marks an important milestone for the two-year-old Program for Harvard College. At the Alumni Association meeting on Thursday afternoon, President Pusey will deliver his annual address and announce the totals to date of the mammoth $82.5 drive to procure increased scholarships, Faculty salaries, Houses, and other buildings and endowments for the College...