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...Mississippi Highway Patrol yesterday arrested 45 students who had been the Pike County Courthouse days. Mississippi officials filed charges against them and set or date for their arraignment. of the demonstrators are Mississippi high-school students under 13. They decided to picket after the MFDP at which Glen Fortenberry, of Pike County, refused to take test which he administers. were protesting the all-white review board and the use of this test...
Bennett said he met Mitchell and Miss Miller earlier in the week in Boston. When they found they had a mutual interest in cave exploring, they decided to investigate Schroder's Cave which was discovered by an Ithaca high-school principal, 25 years ago. Much of it has never been explored...
Disaccreditation by the Southern Association put the county's 116,000 high-school students in a jam. Though they can still enter Florida's state-run universities freely, private and out-of-state colleges often require that the applicant be a graduate of an accredited high school. Duval County also worried about its economy: new business nowadays can hardly be attracted to areas with schools authoritatively pronounced...
...problem is present in all sports. To give an example, four years ago the Eliot House football team had three starting linemen who had never played football before they came to college. Today it has at least eight or ten former all-state high-school players, and these and many others who probably played freshman football and decided or discovered that they were not quite good enough to make the varsity. I do not know why Harvard, not having a reputation as a school strong on athletics, attracts so many outstanding athletes, but they are disrupting the House program...
Nuclear Toys. To that end, Peking has begun a massive new "socialist education" program. All young party members will henceforth have to take part in "collective productive labor"; high-school and college graduates have already been transferred to rural areas. High-school curriculums are being revamped to comprise 60% academic work and 40% manual labor, and universities are tightening their admissions to funnel more high-school graduates onto the farm or factory assembly line...