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...Brookline (Mass.) High School has 90 students taking one or more advanced courses in history, creative writing and mathematics, has found that bright pupils can cover two years of algebra...
...Ostrich Way. As might have been expected, "the classical languages have virtually disappeared from the high schools." Worse still, "the modern foreign languages have been buried alive with them in a common, unmarked grave . . . Meanwhile, the U.S. Office of Education smugly reports that "percentage enrollments in algebra, geometry, physics and Latin have shown progressive decreases . . . since...
...Daily News first received his orders to London, he knew that life was going to be hard for his teen-age stepson Jonathan. After attending U.S. public schools in Oklahoma and New York, and the American School in Tokyo, Jonathan knew no Latin, was way behind in French and algebra. Besides, as his father said, he "declined all invitations to study, and expressed the belief that all teachers were jerks." But by last week, after only two months in Castle Hill College, in a London suburb, Jonathan had changed-so much so, in fact, that Correspondent Hill felt compelled...
With her son already examining colleges, Mrs. Pusey thinks back to her meeting with her husband. He was a junior in college, then," Mrs. Pusey says, "and I was thirteen. He seemed like somebody's grandfather." President Pusey tutored Mrs. Pusey, then Anne Woodward, for a summer in algebra. "I got an A in algebra for the first term," she says. "The next term, without the tutoring, I didn't do so well." Upon her graduation from Bryn Mawr eight years later, Miss Woodward and her tutor were promptly married...
...fields. These fields are very much like the College's although the courses are a little more specific: humanities, with philosophy courses and a Great Book course; natural sciences, with biology, chemistry and physics courses; social sciences, with history, government and economics courses; and mathematics, with geometry and algebra courses. All freshmen take basically the same schedules and are considered students in the University College. But after the first year they branch out into one of Ohio's five more specialized undergraduate colleges--Applied Sciences College, Arts and Sciences College, Commerce College, Education College, and College of Fine Arts. Some...