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...Well known to all who enter college or preparatory school are the blank forms to be filled in with name, address, name of parents, etc., etc. But at The Hill new questions are asked, a new sort of chart is being kept. Searching and revealing, it justifies Headmaster Wendell's advice to the parents of the twelve who will not go to college...
Student answers are filed on a chart to which is later added information in re their curricular and extracurricular activities, their activities and interests during the summer. Interviews with professors about work or ambitions are also noted, and the subsequent results...
Each boy's chart becomes a minute cumulative biography, recording calendar years instead of only school years. Tiny tragedies, failures, successes are noted by terse, keen recording angels with a flair for cross-reference. Tendencies lurking secretly behind chance acts are revealed. The Hill is thus gently turning to scrupulous study of the individual boy. It can advise and knows how best to phrase its advice. It knows too when certain students for one or another reason will find only unhappiness or failure in the looming college years...
Panorama it was called. A pretty smart-chart, plastered with splendid examples of photography, made out of nice paper, containing notes on the gregarious activities of social bigwigs, it made its debut on Manhattan newsstands last October (TIME, Oct. 8). The frontispiece, naturally, was a picture of Mrs. Anne U. Stillman, since she was financing the sheet...
...pinch-hitting director of Le Journal in his absence, Erskine Gwynne naturally acquired the bibulous intimacy with Le Monde Mondain which has enabled him to found and float The Boulevardier. Today he claims 7,000 subscribers, and a larger Paris circulation than the international Paris Comet, a rival smart-chart published simultaneously in Paris, London, and Manhattan...