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...year, a classmate urged him to join a snake-catching safari on the Amazon River. Glancing at the primitive spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn't bring any snakes back but I picked up a tiny marmoset monkey. On the train from New York, in the dining car, I had him inside my coat. And the waiter, who had just set a fruit salad on the table, suddenly saw a long hairy...
BABAR'S VISIT TO BIRD ISLAND (40 pp.) -Laurent de Brunhoff-Random House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...
...most important is that these departmental libraries allow undergraduates to browse around from shelf to shelf, a privilege few are granted in Widener. This random book searching is a valuable part of an undergraduate's education since in a departmental library he has all his specialized volumes centered in one room. If the social relations library moved into Widener, with its old classification system which slits the field into anthropology, psychology, and sociology, books now on one Emerson Hall shelf would be scattered on three different Widener floors...
...education and student values directed by Professor of Sociology Robin Williams of Cornell, interviewed 5,000 students in ten colleges: Harvard, Yale, Texas, North Carolina, U.C.L.A., Michigan, Wesleyan, Wayne, Fiske, and Cornell. Peter Rossi, assistant professor of Social Relations, tested the College's samples. He picked names at random from the Directory of Students to get his sample...
They have spent most of their spare time since trying to organize the random echoes and overtones into understandable patterns-and, if they turned up barnyard squawks and eerie moans along the way, maybe those could be used too. They know their "tapesichord" will never displace the orchestra ("After all, Beethoven's Ninth is still Beethoven's Ninth"), but they believe it will give composers a brand-new range of effects...