Word: giftedness
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Some gifted men gain greatly in poise and range as seniors. A recent Rhodes Scholar who might have graduated in three years and who, all agreed, could have written an excellent honors essay after his third year, went that summer instead to a Harvard project in Africa; he had worked...
Some men, laudably conscious of their parents' efforts on their behalf, at first have vigorous but narrow views of what it will take, say, to become a physician. The Harvard Medical School has refused promising and qualified men after three years, with the suggestion that they do in a fourth...
Such extremist views would do credit to any redneck, but the sentiments belong to James Jackson Kilpatrick, 41, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader and one of the most gifted and eloquent spokesmen for the Old South. They sputter all through his new book, The Southern Case for School...
Andover (841 boys) and Exeter (760) are the biggest nonmilitary boarding schools in the U.S. They are already national: Andover has boys from 44 states. Exeter from 42. They try to be public by breaking down the barriers of tuition, by striving to find poor boys with rich minds. Yet...
From Arabic to archaeology, nearly every school now boasts something special. At Hotchkiss, which still sends 25% of its graduates to Yale, the stress is on sound English and modern math. Each year some boys finish in the eleventh grade, may go on for a year at an English school...