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...Harvard Law School, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, topflight authority on Constitutional law, was asked whether he would take the Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution (TIME, Oct. 14). Replied he: "Certainly I'll support the Constitution. The Constitution has been supporting me for 20 years...
...pattern (six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high, four of college). The pressure of the "old grad" has kept the four-year college course sacrosanct. But educators see a natural break between sophomore and junior years. Up to that point in most topflight colleges the work is preponderantly general; beyond that point it is preponderantly specialized. At the University of Chicago, youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins has led the way by splitting his college in two, calling the upper half "Divisions...
Newest of topflight U. S. literary critics is the Times's Chamberlain. Some months ago a lady who admired his column called at his office, found a diffident young man, with an armful of books, who looked about 26. Gasped the lady: "Are you Mr. Chamberlain?" Actually Critic Chamberlain is 31 and ten years out of Yale, where he chairmanned the funny Yale Record. The Times got him after he had spent one year in an advertising agency, kept him as newshawk and associate editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher...
Professor Stephen Sargent Visher thumbed patiently through three editions of a fat volume in which topflight science men were starred by asterisks. American Men of Science was launched nearly three decades ago with a $1,000 grant from the Carnegie Institution. Through five editions it has been edited by Dr. James McKeen Cattell, now 73, himself a starred psychologist. But Dr. Cattell awards no star either to himself or to others. From the beginning starred scientists have been chosen by vote of men of standing in their respective fields. For the latest edition 250 were selected from some...
Harvard's Medical School, in the U. S. topflight with Columbia's, Cornell's, Johns Hopkins', may expect a friendly eye from President Conant, long a frequent visitor to its laboratories. Failures are rare among its hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...