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Those who worry about children being influenced have little to fear, Tony Dinofrio said. "The grammar school kids won't understand, and the high school kids won't care anyway," Dinofrio, a recent high school graduate, said yesterday...
...McCormack was inspired to make Khomeini dart boards by a diaper serviceman who lined his truck with pictures of the Ayatullah and threw soiled diapers on them. Says McCormack: "We have sold 200,000 to everyone from little old ladies to a kid who wants to peddle them in grammar school...
...minds have not been overburdened with required studies that are remote from their interests. Sir George Porter, a British chemist who won a Nobel in 1967, recalls that he had to put up a stiff fight to be allowed to study science instead of Latin or Greek at his grammar school in England. "Very few Americans speak ancient languages," he says.-"But for 150 years there has been a tradition in America of appreciation of science." Another factor, says M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press, science adviser to President Carter, is that "young scientists are pushed more rapidly here than...
...given the chance; therefore, the study abroad experiences must be suspiciously monitored to maintain "quality control." Davis, for instance, recommended in his memo to Fox that Faculty require study abroad students "to bring all written work for the appropriate faculty members to review." His attitude is reminiscent of grammar school, where teacher kept an eye on the kiddies all the time...
...Harvard Crimson welcomes mail from its readers. Letters will be run as space permits. The Crimson reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and clarity, and to select a headline. All letters to the editor must be signed. Letters should be typed, triple-spaced, and mailed to The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, Massachusetts...