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...stared into the eyes of its superior opponents and didn't flinch. In fact, Harvard controlled the game and built a seemingly insurmountable lead in the second period. But in the end, Harvard's inexperience, Holy Cross' trapping press and amzing individual performances by Crusaders Bettencourt and Rob Feaster allowed Holy Cross back into the contest and set the stage for the game's unlikely ending...
...Human Rights Commission feels that in cases of police brutality, blacks "have shown a willingness to wait for a ruling from the judicial process." But he warns: "When there's an appearance of a perversion of the judicial process, people take to the streets." Agrees Joseph D. Feaster Jr., president of the Boston branch of N.A.A.C.P.: "If you get the right circumstances and the ignition, then you're going to have the problem...
...legislature. Governor Cecil Underwood finally made a proposal he never dared make before-a bill to give education an additional $15 million a year in state funds. Reason for his sudden boldness: the shock felt throughout the state by the revelations of a 476-page document called the Feaster Report...
...result of an 18-month survey led by Dean Eston K; Feaster of West Virginia University's College of Education, the report gave West Virginia (pop. 1,900,000) little cause for pride. Even taking into consideration the shocking fact that the state's pupils rank five points below the national average in IQ, youngsters still do not begin to accomplish all they could. In scholastic achievement, ninth-graders are nearly two years behind the national norm. Third-graders lag by half a year, sixth-graders by a year and a quarter, twelfth-graders by nine-tenths...
...Bored. As if the figures were not bad enough, the Feaster Report has some bitter words to say about pupil and teacher attitudes. "Regardless of the types of schools the pupils have come up through, however much interest in learning a very significant proportion (36%) of them had in grades six and eight is completely, or almost completely, gone by the twelfth grade . . . When more than three out of every four seniors in four large high schools call schooling exasperating and tedious, the situation is too serious to be laughed...