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Incoming sophomore honors candidates will be first in the history of the College to benefit from a plan approved Wednesday to bridge the present gap between the sciences and the humanities at Harvard...
...panacea for the ills afflicting the medical set-up. While Blue Cross would give a more complete coverage than the present University fee, it pays only $12 a day for hospitalization costs. Yet ward costs in any of the local hospitals run to at least $17 a day, a gap that many students would be hard-pressed to fill from their own pockets. In this respect, the current University fee is actually more satisfactory, for the University pays the full $17 a day costs up to a period of two weeks And Blue Cross also fails to provide coverage...
...Harvard Law School professor has made a start at filling the gap. Lanky balding W. (for Walter) Barton Leach, 55, brigadier general U.S.A.F. Reserve knew much of his broad subject firsthand. A onetime secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lawyer Leach became an operations analyst for the Army Air Forces in World War II served as Air Force legal counsel through postwar congressional hassles over unification and the B-36 bomber. Last year he got the university's permission to set up a graduate-level course on national defense policy, began the experiment in September...
...Government tutor, "to give less than an 'A--' to one of my tutees." But as no marks are guaranteed before they reach University Hall, the student tends to regard his tutor as a grader, and acts accordingly. The tutorial program, adapted from British universities, purports to bridge the gap between the pupil and pedagogue; however, when a tutor must evaluate this in terms of a grade, it limits a free exchange of ideas and creates a false atmosphere. As a history tutor explained, "Some students invent problems just so they can come to my office...
Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With the support of local clergymen and parents, he made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles...