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With money from Nessfeness, able Principal Daniel Schreiber brought in one guidance counselor for every 100 students, special teachers for remedial reading and math. He persuaded defeatist parents that their children could become doctors and lawyers, got them to make room for homework. He ushered children to the opera, the theater, atomic laboratories and college campuses. The result-soaring aspirations-was so dramatic that IQs leaped and retarded readers outstripped national norms. This year Junior High 43's proud products are at Amherst, Columbia, Franklin & Marshall, Union and the University of Michigan...
...that he might not even go out for football. True to his warning, Baker passed up freshman football; he was determined to get good grades in engineering. Recalls Professor Richard L. Richardson: "On his second day of school as a freshman, Terry raised his hand and asked if the homework amounted to nothing more than it appeared to be. I said 'No,' and he shook his head in disgust. Everybody in the class gave him a foul look as if to say, 'What are you doing here, fella?' " Richardson had barely recovered from that shock when...
...improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with cheerful self-esteem after arduous homework (he has read The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy 444 times...
...blackboard. New York's Collegiate School for boys tried teaching machines in math, found that 73 students completed in only two weeks an abstract-algebra course that usually requires two months. The Roanoke public schools used teaching machines on 34 eighth-graders-with no oral teaching and no homework-and in less than one semester, all 34 completed a year's work in algebra...
...turquoise earring. An even better attention-getting device was Personae, published in 1909, in which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound's lines still retained the lilt of romance. In An Immorality, he wrote...