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...beginning; it is almost always supplemented by "emergency loans," money for clothing and extras and gifts. Beyond that 272,000 teen-age boys and 220,000 girls work fulltime, averaging $2,221 and $2,933 respectively a year. Even for those still in school, work has become the style: 35% of the boys and 22% of the girls hold year-round part-time jobs, and more than half work during vacations. Today's teen-ager pulls down three times more money than his counterpart right after World...
Charles Hall, a strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 210 lbs.) farm boy from Murrysville, Pa., graduated from high school at 18, third in his class, president of the student council, a two-letterman in basketball. He entered the University of Pittsburgh in 1959, when Pitt inaugurated its year-round trimester calendar. Last week, five years after Hall left high school, Pitt Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield draped the academic robes of a Ph.D. in mathematics around his husky young shoulders...
...college enrollment is expected to expand by nearly 8% this year alone. Furthermore, there is talk of year-round school and more interest in adult education-both of which would require additional equipment. The continuing demands of the space age are shifting emphasis even further to the upper levels, where the students need ever more sophisticated equipment as well as the basics-desk, chairs, supplies-that are the ABCs of the industry...
Many such horizon-widening studies for U.S. nuns are planned and sponsored by the Sister Formation Conference, an organization successfully dedicated to raising the educational standards of the nation's 104,000 teaching nuns. Says Sister Bertrande Meyers of Missouri's Marillac College, which runs a year-round training program for the conference: "We prepare nuns for the 21st century...
...YORK: PEOPLE AND PLACES by Victor Laredo and Percy Seitlin. 192 pages. Reinhold. $12.50. As if to prove that New York is not to be reduced, despite the slogan, to a mere summer festival, a clutch of recently issued picture-and-commentary books have tried to capture the year-round look and feel of the city as its passionate fans know it. These two are the best. Laredo's photos are particularly good at capturing architecture, and the accompanying essays are casual and urbane. But for many readers Feininger's camera may prove more authoritative, his selection...