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...High School. Suave and swellegant Cary Grant, 59, quickly toured the building, averaged a swoon a room. The British-born actor was in town to campaign for the privately sponsored Stay-in-School Fund, dropped in on the overcrowded, predominantly Negro classes to get an idea of what causes dropouts. Wasn't he a dropout himself? someone asked. Perish the thought, replied Cary, whose formal education ended at the age of 13. "I was expelled. I went to a perfectly good school, but they couldn't stand...
...fund drive for sitins. He dropped out of Yale to run N.S.M. because "I felt a call to do it." Last summer Countryman & Co. set up classes for the school-less Negro youngsters of Virginia's Prince Edward County, and also tackled North Philadelphia, where the high school dropout rate is 60% and only 2½% of the kids get to college. N.S.M. recruited 175 tutors (including about 70 Negroes) at colleges from Amherst to Sarah Lawrence, put them to work with 375 youngsters for four hours a week all summer. One byproduct: Countryman's marriage to Tutor...
Also in the field of education one volunteer, a 56-year-old woman, is undertaking a study of the causes of the high dropout rate in Harlem's schools...
...patched walls, peeling paint, and wrapping paper for window shades, nearly 400 students go to school in classrooms built for 280. On the third floor of Hine school (nicknamed "Horrible Hine"), litter and debris from a 1959 fire have yet to be cleaned up. The city's school dropout rate is 39%; discipline is so precarious that school officials have been forced to call for police aid nearly 300 times so far this school year...
Humanities 2 has replaced Economics 1 as the non-compulsory course with the highest enrollment in the University. The combined effect of a February dropout of 23 students in Ec 1 and an increase of 25 in this half-year's Hum 2 enrollment, now totaling 720, accounted for the switch in position of the courses...