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Clapp's point: through their "stranglehold on education," U.S. educational theorists have so diluted the aca demic content of the public school that it now lags far behind those in Europe.

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For dust-jacket purposes, it may be described as the stirring adventures of a young Italian officer making his way home through the south of France during the terrible 1838 epi demic of Asiatic cholera.

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On Monday, Dietzel flew to Natchez to talk to young Perry Lee of L.S.U.'s winning tradition, national reputation, big stadium and aca demic standing.

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