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...Paddle. The atmosphere at St. Aug's is warm but strict. Misbehaving students are whacked with an oak paddle; homework averages three hours a day. Entrance is by competitive exam, but the school's principal, the Rev. Robert H. Grant is committed to the idea of a comprehensive high school for youths of different intellectual capacities, and the IQs range from 75 to 130. Every pupil writes a weekly 300-word composition to counter the prevalent weakness in verbal skills. Math and science come easier because in those subjects "we are dealing with a kid's natural...
Colleges are also getting leary of grades-are-everything competition. The first major school to act is California Institute of Technology, which last week eliminated "freshman grades. Caltech's ferociously smart freshmen will still take exams and do graded homework assignments, but at the end of the freshman year students will simply pass or fail. With grades "unattainable," Faculty Chairman Ernest H. Swift hopes that freshmen "will find it easier to concentrate on the content of their course. This, in turn, may enable them to make more sensible choices as to the investment of their time and energy...
...Cyril Black, who at last count was chairman of some 40 companies and director of a dozen more. But the increasing number of teachers, white-collar employees and workers among M.P.s have a much harder time dividing their careers this way. Besides, with the growing amount of complex homework to be done, Parliament is becoming more and more of a round-the-clock...
...says Teacher Velma Branch. A teacher goes behind a screen and asks children to identify the sound of a bouncing ball, an egg beater, a newspaper being crumpled. Pupils smell fruits and flowers, classify objects according to texture, distinguish shapes, care for pets. They even are assigned rudimentary homework: "Take this pear home. Eat it and bring back the seeds tomorrow...
...also treating two patients at home by essentially the same technique as that used in Boston, though the equipment differs in detail. One of his patients is a high school girl who leaves classes early twice a week so that her mother can dialyze her, while she does her homework...