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...second most desirable colleges in the U.S. are Harvard and Radcliffe, says the top 8% of 1,500,000 high school entrants in the National Merit Scholarship competition. So who's on first - and so on down to tenth? The bright kids' picking order, according to a three-year survey...
...ought to hold open meetings, and ideally they would evolve into forums at which concerned undergraduates and faculty members could exchange ideas freely. But in any case, this arrangement offers more hope for an effective dialogue than the present Council which meets in splendid isolation each month on the tenth floor of the Health Center...
...museum's attendance-45,000 on Sunday alone-might be honor enough, but Rorimer, nearing his tenth anniversary as director, is far from finished with his dreaming. Last week's fete will hardly be the Met's last supper. He announced plans for a $4,000,000 wing for American art. Not normally known as well-established in art of the New World, the Met has just a few things begging to find wall space there. Among its U.S. painting treasures, rarely seen together for lack of gallery space, are 37 Sargents, 22 Gilbert Stuarts, 15 Homers...
...state legislature, proposing to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. One youth, however, was already participating by calling her father, Grant Sawyer, and telling him as soon as he left the air that his idea turned her off. Added Gail Sawyer, 15, a Carson City tenth-grader, in an interview: "If voting qualifications were lowered, most kids would just go for who their parents are for." Most kids...
Already beyond the schools' help, for example, is Harlem Dropout Harrison Campbell, 16, who quit Manhattan Vocational High School in the tenth grade last November. Campbell wanted to be a carpenter, "but 1 wasn't learning nothing, no how," and no one urged him to stay on. Nowadays, he sleeps until noon, plays cards and records with his buddies until 3 p.m., then ambles over to a neighborhood school playground for a game of basketball or football. Campbell hopes to get a job soon, delivering telephone books at $11.80 a day. "That's good bread," he says...