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...Lutheran Theological Seminary, "but to engage it with vital issues." In one recent year, a third of the students at Yale Divinity School were Phi Beta Kappas; of 39 students who entered Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary last year, 13 had IQs of 130 or more. At Vanderbilt, reports Dean William C. Finch, seminarians are "as a group equal to or better than" other graduate students...
...Editor Norman Cousins ("Education and Our Foreign Policy"), Author Vance Packard ("The Changing Character of the American People"), ex-FBI Agent Herbert Philbrick ("Zero Hour for America"). There is still room for the woman's angle with such as Gossipist Hedda Hopper on Hollywood, and Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt ("Gracious Living Can Be Fun"). And it seems there will always be John Mason Brown, the dean of them all, who has been dispensing wit and wisdom for 36 years, is currently attacking what he calls the "spiritual fallout" in writing. "The purpose of writing," he orates, "is to hold...
...majoring in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Wideman won the campus creative-writing prize, last month got his Phi Beta Kappa key. this year captained Penn's undefeated basketball team. Last week, hours after hurdling the Rhodes selection committee. Captain Wideman led Penn to victory over Vanderbilt topped his team's scoring with 18 points. His Oxford agenda: language and literature in order to teach college English...
...Earlier beneficiaries: Brown, Denver, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Stanford. The 29 colleges that have got grants range from Amherst to Whitman...
Besides the Houses (Shepley designed both the older, Georgian buildings and also Leverett Towers and Quincy), he drew the plans for the Medical School's Vanderbilt Hall and several freshman dormitories--Wigglesworth, Straus, Mower, and Lionel...