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P:Language students at Columbia University this year will have their choice of three new tongue-twisters. In addition to such old favorites as Syriac (ancient Mesopotamia), Samoyed (Siberia) and Akkadian (ancient Babylon), Columbia is adding Avestan, the language of Zoroaster; Kurdish, spoken by the wandering Kurds of Turkey, Iraq and Iran; and Tagalog, a native language of the Philippines. Total languages now available: 50. P: After five years of experimenting, Harvard finally put its General Education "core curriculum" into practice. From now on, each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Sample G.E. course: "Humanism in the West"--man's ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad to the Waste Land. P: The U.S. Naval Academy, with one deadpan eye on West Point, reported that it had just fired one midshipman for cheating. (West Point's score so far this year: 90-odd.) P:St. John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year decided to tonic its dwindling student body by taking in coeds, got its first one (of 24 now enrolled). Said 17-year-old Sue Griffith, who arrived early from Green Tree, N. Mex.: "The boys here are more studious-looking than the ones at home."

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