Word: high-school
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...response to the inadequacies of the Boston schools, Youth Alliance has started classes in photography, history of minorities, and judo-karate. Alliance is trying to establish its own programs for high-school equivalency diplomas, leadership training, sex education, and job training...
...enrollment of 1,125-399 of them coeds. Also coeducational, also Presbyterian, and only slightly larger (1,366 undergraduates), Westminster is located in New Wilmington, Pa., a farm town of cobblestoned streets and a single stoplight. Neither college tries to compete with the big-time football foundries in recruiting high-school stars; neither pampers its athletes with snap courses or "laundry money." "We give no outright scholarships at all," says Westminster Coach Harold Burry, who also coaches golf and swimming, besides teaching statistics. Says Waynesburg's athletic director, Clayton Ketterling: "We just pick up what's left over...
They discussed the current situation. One of them, a high-school teacher, was particularly gloomy -- all of Papandreou's American-oriented educational reforms had been revoked. The desiccated old system of instruction was being re-established, complete with "purist" or academic Greek, as the obligatory school language. The "purist" is an artificial language despised by all artists and writers; Kazantzakis once went to jail for agitating against it. But those who want to "purify the nation" have made it a symbol of their crusade...
Sure as Mass. Sullivan says that he would like to smile more, but he claims that his stiff upper lip is a habit that he cultivated after having his teeth shuffled while playing high-school football. He has since got new choppers, but he hesitates to flash them because he feels that his friendly-undertaker look has become an important part of his image. With a weekly salary of $20,000, ratings that have placed him in the top 20 for most of two decades, and advertisers waiting in line to spend $52,000 for 60 seconds of air time...
Returning students had, Hayes said, found that their apartments-subleased to hippies over the summer-were in shambles. He also had several letters from parents of high-school students in the Cambridge area, expressing concern over their children's associations with hippies...