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Three men students exceed the Biblical three score and ten, the oldest being 78. The oldest the weaker sex can claim is 66. One sixteen-year-old boy braved the academic rigors, but five boys and 17 girls are only a year older...
...work is, as the name signifies, wholly voluntary. In the older groups, from about thirteen through sixteen, the men volunteers work with the boys and the women with the girls, but in the younger groups, six through twelve, the volunteer may choose either boys or girls...
...figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl it was not so bad because I got used to the kids on the block makeing fun of me, but now I would like to have boy friends like the other girls...
...also noticed that intellectual excellence on the undergraduate level was in no way equated with his puritanical notions about the need for work. Apparently anticipating the fact that the proto-academics would soon be required to suffocate in book dust sixteen hours a day, the University granted a four year respite in which intellectual sophistication plus a few hours of work per week would pass for genius...
While a person working just for a grade gets quite a lot out of a course, I wish we didn't have to lay so much stress on grades, particularly in areas like scholarships. We have sixteen and one half courses for everybody, and the same system all the way through...