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Although Protestant sisterhoods are now a permanent part of the church, only a handful of orders and mother houses require candidates to take permanent vows. The Kaiserswerth deaconesses, for exam ple, are asked only to serve a minimum of three years, and many sisters do leave to marry or take jobs as laywomen. But thousands of others are permanently enthralled by the call of community, and spend their lives in Christian service...
...League is a resistance movement against overreliance on objective tests in deciding who gets in. Last week the movement got new support from Columbia's undergraduate admissions director, Henry S. Coleman, who voiced some doubts about the most sacrosanct test of all, the college board verbal aptitude exam...
...Bargain. Though off relief, the new cabbies decided to keep on with their schooling. For a model they can look to Hilliard's star pupil. Laborer William Rhymes, 53. jobless since 1959. who recently outshone hundreds of rivals in a stiff exam for high school entrance. Now he aims to earn a diploma in three years. "No kid of mine is ever going to drop out of school," vows Rhymes. That's saying...
Dividing children into three basic groups, the system sends the mechanically minded 5% to good technical schools. The top 20% go to scholarly grammar schools, where in five years they can take an exam for the "ordinary" General Certificate of Education. Some go on for two more years as "sixth-formers." aiming for the advanced certificate that Britons must earn before entering universities...
Late bloomers get a new crack at academic training. Says Headmaster William Hamblin of London's Samuel Pepys Comprehensive School: "Last year 150 boys-90% of whom had come here as eleven-plus failures-were able to take the ordinary GCE exam. Four boys, also failures, took the advanced GCE. All four passed and all are now at London University. A tremendous achievement." This year Pepys has 30 sixth-formers poised for university entrance...