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Leachim's brain is packed with a fund of information that includes the contents of Compton's Encyclopaedia, Webster's New World Dictionary, a Ginn science book, a thesaurus and a Macmillan reading series. He has also been programmed with biographical information on the 29 students, including their reading levels, math scores and hobbies. As he works with the students, Leachim keeps track of their progress and changing scores, sometimes asking extra questions of the faster learners and drilling slower ones on older material. After about six months, he will have to be reprogrammed to keep...
WILLIAM HALSEY WOOD Little Compton...
Following its Stein Cup victory, Harvard humbled Princeton and MIT in the Compton Cup, also on the Charles. The outcome was never in question, as the Crimson won going away. Harvard has now been in possession of the Compton Cup for 11 years and the win was the Crimson's 27th as compared to eight for the Tigers and a solo for the Engineers...
Next week the heavyweights will again be in action on the Charles River when they meet MIT and Princeton in the Compton Cup Regatta...
Increasingly, students in such schools are arming themselves with knives and cheap handguns. "In the kids' eyes, a gun is an equalizer," says one teacher. At Los Angeles' Compton High School a 17-year-old student, armed with a gun and a knife, demanded money from a 16-year-old. The victim drew his own gun and shot the extortionist dead...