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...fairly good rule of thumb to avoid books that come in cardboard slipcases, just as a practiced reader automatically avoids the memoirs of actresses, novels described by their publishers as heartwarming, and books given prepublication endorsements by Clifton Fadiman. The rule is not absolute, but more often than not the contents of a slipcase either have calcified into the classic condition or are so fragile that they need an especially strong container to keep them from crumbling. Most of Janet Frame's stories, sketches and fables in these two prettily boxed booklets fit the second case...
...Clifton '63, former president of Phillips Brooks House, said yesterday that the PBH summer program is going "full tilt...
...social service center during the year for 850 Harvard and Radcliffe students, maintains programs within the University and in the Boston area. Clifton said summer students can join in the PBH projects...
...with 100 boys from the Lyman School for Boys. The boys have either fulfilled their sentences or have been voluntarily placed in the School by their parents. These "placement cases," between the ages of eight to thirteen, are "over-disciplined" by the rigorous training given them at the School, Clifton said...
This done, Dean Monro presented the two Ames Awards for self-reliance, service, and high character to Cornelius J. Minihan, past president of the HCUA and to Jon W. Clifton, president of Phillips Brooks House. Dean Ford then made some remarks of "appreciation and exhortation" to the Class. Dean Ford was followed by Albert Pratt '33, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, who congratulated the seniors on their graduation...