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...past decade) that more than half of traditional training programs have shut down for lack of students and money. One likely casualty: the 106-year-old diploma-nursing program at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the nation's oldest...
...Rosemary's Baby is likely to forget the fortress that housed the satanic gathering. In real life, however, the forbidding turrets and gables guard one of the oldest, ritziest and most famous apartment buildings in Manhattan. It is the Dakota, behind whose 2-ft. -thick brick walls live such celebrities as Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who own some 28 rooms throughout the Dakota and who once held a séance to commune with departed tenants. Other famous occupants have included Leonard Bernstein, Judy Holliday and Boris Karloff, plus several purported house ghosts...
Founded in 1934 by the late Freudian analyst Robert Young, Wediko is the nation's oldest therapeutic camp for disturbed youngsters. Once it took only boys who had relatively minor neuroses. Today Wediko is more daring. Supported by private and public funds (cost per child: $1,500), it accepts badly troubled youngsters of both sexes. Of its 144 campers this summer, many have been battered and sexually abused. Some refuse to eat; others are withdrawn, suicidal and even homicidal. Explains Psychologist Hugh Leichtman, the camp's director: "These children are very resistant to change...
...Advocate: America's oldest college publication. In a cozy building behind Kirkland House, artsy intellectuals gather around a big table to determine what poetry, prose and graphics will fill the quarterly. The quality of the contributions is erratic--some are outstanding. But the Advocate's reputation as the best party-giver on campus offsets its tough comps...
...first thing you need to know is that there are actually two bureaucracies that will share the Yard with you throughout the year. Massachusetts Hall--the Yard's oldest brick-and-ivy structure--houses the University administration. President Bok and his bevy of vice president oversee the College and all of the graduate schools, as well as all other University affiliates, from this unassuming perch. Across the way, in University Hall, more impressive and dominating by far, sits the College administration--the building's name is meant to confuse you. Here Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...