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...With ten major orchestras and seven opera houses, Austria has ample opportunities for musicians, and 4,000 of its youngsters are currently studying music with an eye to sharing in the rewards, financial as well as artistic. There are, in fact, 7,500 professional musicians in Austria -about one-tenth of 1% of the 7,000,000 population (the same percentage as in the U.S.). Says Vienna impresario Peter Weiser: "At 20, a young musician can have the solvency and social position of an advertising vice president." Top Viennese instrumentalists make the equivalent of $14,000 a year, and members...
...welll. In other words, the better the educational institution, the more likely it is to give students the feeling that they are incompetent or mediocre, and that they are not really very brilliant--unless they are fantastically talented. If they are only moderately talented, say in the top one-tenth of one percent of the population, they are likely to come out with the feeling of being only first-rate second-raters. The Peace Corps and like experiences (ACCION, AFSC, PAPAL Volunteers, etc.) may give such students a second chance for self-confidence...
Future Harvard wrestling opponents in the tournament were Yale, tied for sixth with 31 points, and M.I.T., which finished tenth with...
Harvard, which finished tenth in the same tournament a year ago, took 46 points in the overall scoring, trailing powerful Maryland (91), Army (86), and East Stroudsberg...
...score was not padded by breaks or augmented by momentum. The Crimson took 52 good shots, had a tenth goal called back, and on this particular night was eight beautiful goals better than the outclassed Huskies...