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...Brown was know as a strong president' university," one student who was active in the educational reform effort says. "Simultancously, we lost a strong president and acquired Ira Magaziner...
MAGAZINER came to Brown from Lawrence, N.Y. as a freshman in September, 1965. (Harvard turned down his application.) He graduated last June, with a Rhodes scholarship for study at Oxford. Students and faculty alike still speak of him with something approaching awe. "Ira was the most brilliant student we've had around here for a long time," says F. Donald Eckelman, the dean of the college. "I think it'll be a dozen years before we see another like...
...cares what banks fail in Yonkers Long as you've got a kiss that conquers? -George and Ira Gershwin's Who Cares...
...Your commendable "peaceful revolutionary" from Brown, Ira Magaziner [July 4], may have some difficulty if he plans to "joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College." He had better be prepared for a group of dons whose social, economic and academic perspectives easily match the boldness of his own ideas. The doctoral program Magaziner will follow, supposedly so traditional, can be a study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design...
Penn's rowing program had been successful last spring. The Quakers took varsity and freshman titles at the IRA championships and had won the freshman crown at the Eastern Sprints. It is an ambitious program, designed to break the grip Harvard has had on the national title and bring it to Philadelphia. As a reward, and primarily as a final test, Penn sent their excellent varsity heavies, a good four-with-coxswain, and their undefeated freshman heavies to Henley. The experiment failed Badly...