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The News Office's biggest apostasy is in trying to protect the cherished image of a Harvard that poor boys, as well as rich ones, can attend. "With college costs rising rapidly," the report says innocently, as though this development were independent of any action on Harvard's part, the...
Bender has focused on the most general aspects of scholarship and admission policy, and concludes that the Faculty missed the point in both issues. In scholarships the problem is not distribution of aid or encouraging people to take loans, but sheet inadequacy of funds. Harvard more than doubled aid in...
Digging In. Much of that preparation was a matter of just plain digging in. The U.S. was preparing for a gopher existence, if necessary, and the national bestseller was a 32-page Department of Defense pamphlet, The Family Fallout Shelter. Until August, monthly requests for the free booklet had averaged...
While more and more retailers stampede customers with discount prices and waylay them near home with suburban branches, the pride of San Francisco's Post Street, Gump's Inc., prospers by remaining as aloof as Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight...
For sportsmen, Siberia is as rewarding as the U.S. West. In summer, entire families go berry picking, and fishermen have their choice of a hundred tumbling trout streams. Fall brings the traditional Russian search for mushrooms in the forests, and hunters throng the duck blinds on the reedy shores of...