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...elitist, hostile to all efforts at liberalizing Britain's class-ridden school system. Traditionally, the 8,000,000 children in state schools take a rugged series of tests at the age of 11 and then are divided into the brightest 20%, mostly middle class, who go to academic "grammar schools," and the slower 80%, who are sent to "secondary modern schools." In the 1950s, authorities began slowly merging these two kinds of schools into more egalitarian institutions called "comprehensives," which now make up almost one-third of the secondary schools. Mrs. Thatcher's first official...
Sizer is not new to secondary boarding schools. He attended Pomfret School before graduating from Yale in 1953, and taught at Melbourne Church of England grammar school in Australia...
...half-century. After studies at Harvard, the Sorbonne and Oxford. Eliot gave up his Ph.D. degree (as Pound had before him) to write poetry. He married a neurotic woman who eventually went mad. To support them, he lectured, edited, wrote occasional literary pieces, taught at the High Wycombe Grammar School for "?140 per annum with dinner," eventually gravitating to a job at Lloyds Bank...
...four years that he played for Harrow Weald Grammar, the team had a record of 116-21 and won three district championships. The year before he came to Harvard. Wilmot played center half on the All-England Grammar School team...
...letter which appeared in the Nov. 16th Crimson in response to current feminist activities in Church 174 stated that no one should object to the unmarkedness of the masculine gender in English since it is "simply a feature of grammar." The facts presented in the letter were correct, but the authors missed the point. The women in the Divinity School course were raising the more serious question of a possible relationship between this unmarkedness and male-dominated social structure, and that is the question to which the linguists should have addressed themselves. The answer is by no means obvious...