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They also spent $8.6 million in 1949 to acquire American Education Publications, publishers of a grade school current-events pamphlet, My Weekly Reader, which soon expanded to 13 school periodicals with a circulation of 16.5 million, netting the university $28.5 million. The press was sold in 1965 to the Xerox Corp. for 400,000 shares of stock then worth $56 million. Wesleyan has since netted $63 million by selling 300,000 of the Xerox shares. The school's endowment of $161 million breaks down to $130,000 per student...
...novel (John Rechy's City of Night, Alfred Chester's The Exquisite Corpse) runs to a pat boy-meets-boy formula and also takes to a traditional thematic cover. The jacket proclaims a search for love and the breakthrough from loneliness. But inside the jacket the reader usually finds an untucked hair shirt of violence and degradation. The gay life never leads down a simple primrose path; most relationships of this sort are entangled in the bramble of sadomasochism, and inevitably, the virgin is despoiled, the innocent becomes jaded, and another sensitive, out-of-step, sad young...
...Dream Palace). His talent does not flag here, despite his choice of subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect: though an atmosphere is evoked in sharp and crystalline terms and though figures are intensely and skillfully rendered, the reader remains unmoved. Fortunately, most men do not live in a neo-Gothic neverland where the entire range of human experience is dominated by a single obsession. Life is at once simpler and more complicated than that...
...reader will quickly recognize him as a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield...
...again the question of circulation of Widener periodicals to students. The Library's policy regarding the use of periodicals has been carefully established to accommodate the overall academic community, which requires that periodicals be available when needed. Periodical volumes include several issues and many more individual articles. Since a reader usually does not read through an entire periodical volume, but is interested in one article, there is consequently little justification for such volumes to circulate and thus to immobilize all the other articles and so make them unavailable to other readers...