Word: calverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three children, whose tested IQs are in the genius range of 150-160. According to the West Windsor Township school board, they have broken the New Jersey law that requires all children to attend school or "receive an equivalent instruction elsewhere." Though the Trifans use Baltimore's famed Calvert School (tuition: $85 yearly), which gives lessons by mail to thousands of overseas and shut-in children, School Superintendent Francis Walton interprets the law to require "a classroom education." Children, says he, should "learn from each other in a group situation...
...Maps & Russian. "We started when they were still babies," recalls Mrs. Trifan. "They each knew the alphabet by their second birthday-it was sort of a birthday present." At three, each of the children could read. At six, each had passed third-grade subjects. Richard, 7, is now in Calvert's fifth grade, Daniel, 9, is in the seventh, and Marioara, 11, completed the eighth last June. This puts them three grades ahead of their ages...
...Marioara not needed approval from the Princeton high school last fall to go on from Calvert's eighth grade to a high school correspondence course, the Trifans might never have been in court. The school board was incensed to discover that the family had two other children at home, insisted that "the laws are binding." Harvard-trained Chemist Trifan, who says he cannot afford a regular private school, is equally incensed. "They seem not to care that in public school the children would have to drop back academically Trifans' two or lawyer three argues years," he says...
...Need for God. In The Light and the Dark Lewis continues to suffer, but from the sidelines. The setting is Cambridge, where, in the '30s, Lewis has become an academic cog. The central figure is Roy Calvert-a brilliant, rich, erratically humored young Orientalist who is decoding an ancient language called Early Soghdian. The first crisis is whether Calvert is to be elected a fellow of the college. In one of those vendettas of common room and high table that no one describes with more authoritative relish than C. P. Snow, Calvert squeaks through. But Roy is prey...
...live them down, to imbed them deep, not to let them lead him away from his future as a college worthy, from his amiable wife and son. But he was too realistic, too humble, too genuine a man to forget them. 'Uncle Arthur loves odd fish,' said Roy Calvert, whom he had helped through more than one folly. In middle age 'Uncle Arthur' was four square in himself, without a crack or flaw, rooted in his solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature. But he loved odd fish, for he knew, better than anyone, the odd desires, that he had left...