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...those 4800 people who arrive in the Square the day before the Fourth of July? They are, first of all, those who can afford to come. Summer School itself is not overly expensive: registration costs $25, each half-course is $165 (the usual load is two half-courses), and the fee for auditing varies from $20 to $110 a course, depending on the rest of the program. But there are living expenses, too: almost all the non-Radcliffe girls, and many of the non-Harvard boys, live in the dorms, where room and board...
...Vietnam to analysis of a symphony. The boys were able to discuss academic and personal problems with their teachers. When one flunked French, Challenge found him a tutor. However, the program suffered from infrequent meetings and a shot-gun approach to subject matter. The boys had a fairly heavy load of homework; many held part-time jobs; and several were on sports teams. Although Challenge would like to have classes for boys all the way through 12th grade, high school students, even more than the ninth graders, are likely not to have time to participate...
...teaching fellows are approaching the University with two requests: a substantial pay increase and a standardization of the methods used to measure their work load. Both requests reflect legitimate grievances...
...second issue-the "fifth" system for measuring the work load-is an area where the Federation's chances are more promising. Both administrators and teaching fellows agree that a "fifth" is defined in as many ways as there are departments. The inequity means that some teaching fellows are badly overworked and underpaid. The Federation has pointed out a genuine problem, and the University should be as anxious as the teaching fellows to see it corrected...
Bended Knee. That examination over, Buswell packed his 1720 Strad and dashed back to Cambridge, Mass., to study for exams at Harvard, where he is a sophomore carrying a full load of classes. Though his 50-city concert tour this season means that he will miss 40% of his classes, he bones up on lectures taped for him by an admiring Radcliffe coed. "I take my books on tour," he says, "but it's like a child sucking his thumb. They comfort me, make me feel virtuous. But I'm always disastrously behind." Nevertheless, he caught up well...