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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some parents seek to avoid legal tangles by registering their children in correspondence schools. Among the largest are the Home Study Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1,100 elementary school children, 2,000 high school level) and Baltimore's Calvert School (4,500 elementary). Calvert's home instruction is said to have started when its headmaster made up lesson packets for children kept away from school by a whooping cough epidemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching Children at Home | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...members of the Circumnavigators Club in New York City include Senator Barry Goldwater, who walked around the world both ways at the South Pole; Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who holds the record for the highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Men of Good Stature' | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Mount Royal Brass Quintet, comprised of members of the Faculty of Music of McGill University, Montreal, performs its Boston debut on May 15. The year-old group will play brass works by Bach, Dahl, le Jeune, Calvert, Schuller, and Ewald...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Bows But No Scrapes As the Bach Soc. Bows Out | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...Fell's assertion that Ogam is an ancient Celtic script that reached both Ireland and America after its origin on the Iberian peninsula, both Goddard and Calvert Watkins, professor of Linguistics and the Classics, maintain that there is a well-established literature on Ogam that identifies it as a script developed in Ireland by someone who knew Latin, sometime around...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

Jennifer Hamilton Calvert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1977 | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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