Word: selectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Harvard's education has traditionally been one directed to a reasonably small, select group. The University has no obligation whatever to turn out more men if it must change its character to do so. On the contrary, it has an obligation to stave off America's mass culture, and to preserve its own unique contributions to the world...
...funicular railway up the 1,800-foot Peak, which was once the exclusive citadel of British taipans and has a view of sea, sky and islands that puts the Bay of Naples to shame. They go to the floating restaurants at the fishing village of Aberdeen, where patrons select the live fish that will be served them at dinner. Between bouts of shopping, visitors wander amid the outlandish statuary of the Tiger Balm Garden or prowl the stairway streets above Queen's Road and look into the thieves' market of Cat Street, where Chinese antiques from the mainland...
...peace corps were sent. However, the central question of draft-exemption again comes up. Is Congress likely to accept U.N. "Peace Corps" work as an alternative to military service, even for just a few hundred or thousand youth? And for the U.N. program it raises difficulties: who would select the participants...
...somewhat misleading title of "Doc Wells and Seven Swinging Surgeons." Actually, as noted, the group consisted of three doctors, a dentist, and five businessmen and professionals--all from Weston. They play mostly for themselves ("Our wives don't lot us away too much"), but appear in public on select occasions ("There has to be a little booze"). Since Condon's moved to the East Side and went respectable--they don't serve you under eighteen any more--this was your reviewer's first encounter with hot jazz. And it was refreshing...
...Thursday the Advisory Committee will select four plays for its spring schedule from those submitted by the HDC, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Harvard Opera Guild, and other groups. Chapman was unable to predict the chances of the HDC suggestions...