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Fifty years ago, Van Auken, a sixth grader from Alpine, Texas, flew to Harvard to speak with the admissions committee about the possibility of applying to the College, according to the July 5, 1946 issue of The Crimson...
...sixth grader, attempting to become the youngest applicant for admission since Cotton Mather, was disappointed to learn he could not apply until his senior year of high school...
OLIVIA RISS PEEBLES, 7, who drew the headline lettering for our cover and our inside story, may be TIME's youngest contributor. A second-grader at St. Luke's School in New York City, Olivia began painting as a toddler. "I like to make my own pictures, not copy them, because that makes them really mine," she says. Art is just one of her passions. Among the others: her Abyssinian cat Horatio, cooking pizza and cakes, swimming, modern dance and rock 'n' roll. "I go crazy for the Beatles," says Olivia. "I feel free as a bird when I dance...
...want the School Committee to hold the superintendent responsible for her actions over the last six months, as we have been held for ours," said ninth-grader Noah G. McIntire, an organizer of the walkout...
...room CCII (make that 202) of Martin Luther King Latin Grammar Middle School in Kansas City, Missouri, Ms. Dickerson's rhetoric students are engaged in a public-speaking contest. Sixth-grader Jo Ann Carter, dressed in the school uniform of white blouse and plaid skirt, has chosen a speech by the school's eponym: "If something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect," she declaims forcefully, "the whole world is doomed...