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With quiet force, the authors repeat familiar indictments: "We must recognize that in many areas our educational facilities are poor and our educational effort slovenly. Our schools are overcrowded, understaffed and ill-equipped." Some statistics: by 1969 there will be 50% to 70% more high-school students than present schools can accommodate; by 1975 college enrollments will be doubled or tripled. The need for teachers is enormous; yet industries and Government outbid the universities for graduates who might become college teachers. And all too often programs to train precollege teachers are so "rigid, formalistic and shallow" that they "drive away...
...through only with his honors thesis. Unfortunately complication and not critical analysis of a subject is stressed, but the practise does provide a valuable preview of research methods. With his source theme behind him, the Scarsdale student is better able to attack the usual college paper than is the high-school graduate who has never written more than a 500-word essay...
Sighted Sub, Sank Same. In Knoxville, Tenn., track and field officials disqualified Miler Jerry Long, who put on a stirring burst of speed while finishing a high-school race -because he had slipped into the race on the last lap when Teammate John Looney dropped...
Said the President, braced at his news conference with his chairman's lack of never-say-die: "Now for my part. I never yet admitted defeat on any fight I had to fight. I once had to participate in a high-school team that played against a college, and we still made a pretty good show...
...father invited Mies to come to Manhattan, signed him up for the building. There were some anxious hours when it developed that Chicago's Mies had no license to practice in New York, did not have the high-school education required for a license, and refused to take the prescribed examination. Red tape was cut to get the great architect a New York license. To help him through the intricacies of the city's building code, and to detail the interiors, Mies called in Philip Johnson as his collaborator...