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Except for the neat sign that says "Northrop Institute of Technology," the pale green buildings look like any factory in bustling (aerospace) Inglewood, adjoining Los Angeles. This is fitting, for N.I.T. is the only U.S. campus spawned by an industrial corporation as an in-plant cram school and then successfully converted to a much respected nonprofit college, whose graduates now number...
...offices in Geneva, advertised in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune for salesmen "with a sense of humor." Among those who hired on were a musician, a veterinarian, a helicopter pilot and an economics student. New salesmen are introduced to the business in five-day cram courses. Commissions range up to 6% of sales; last year's leader earned...
Intellectual Horsepower. With $100,000 from the Ford Foundation, Warren in 1958 launched a six-week cram school for 100 of the state's brightest boys. (Girls came in last year.) The idea: douse them in a year's worth of courses unavailable in their own schools-and in a high-octane intellectual atmosphere where the gifted could feel free to compete as hard as possible. This summer's 103 boys and 55 girls were culled from the top 5% of their classes after interviews with Director R. Philip Hugny, a onetime teacher at Rutgers...
...appears that, at least for the near future, the semi-annual ordeal will remain with us. To be sure, its critics have quite a few arguments left: examinations create arbitrary divisions between bodies of knowledge; they encourage students to cram in a hurry and forget equally rapidly. But given the practical advantages of examinations under the present educational system, one doubts that these criticisms will prevail. From a pragmatic standpoint, one can only ask: given examinations, how can they be made more tolerable? Or one can take a radical approach and inquire whether the entire system should be changed...
...really a financial and Mrs. Bunting insists it is, fourth House is perhaps the best and probably the only solution to the problem of Radcliffe But the library-study-tutorial the Quadrangle, another of Mrs. Bunting's projects for the future, other questions. No one who has attempted to cram herself into the Radcliffe library during reading would argue that the College does need more space for both books and students. Yet, despite the obvious advantages of putting books in to living quarters, there are drawbacks to the suggested Radcliffe's greatest natural and will remain Harvard, and Harvard...