Letters, Mar. 21, 1960

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You state that despite its excellent advanced program, Andover can only squeeze 43% of its students into the "Big Three." Andover is not attempting such squeezing at all. The dean has made great attempts to put students into schools where they will derive the greatest benefit. Two of our Merit Scholarship winners, certainly outstanding students, chose from the 44 other colleges, because they believed they could derive more from them. A big-name school, as you report, is by no means an assurance of the best education, even for a good student.

GEORGE PIDOT JR.

Princeton University Princeton, NJ.

Sir:

Rather than Haverford being "a sort of pocket Harvard," as you state, Harvard has long been a sort of gargantuan Haverford.

STEPHEN S. SMITH

Haverford College Haverford, Pa.