Word: johnses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Testing Feat. The reason why some people might look on the three students as a little odd is that they graduated last week from Johns Hopkins University at the age of 17. All have IQs of more than 150. And all three-along with five other precocious seniors-were found...
Their graduation is a milestone in a unique program at Johns Hopkins, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. It was begun in 1971 by Psychology Professor Julian Stanley, 58, who remembered his boredom in Georgia public schools and decided "to save these kids from the same experience." Stanley, a statistician...
As Stanley's program has become increasingly well known, hundreds of seventh-graders have been pouring in from a wider and wider area to take his tests and sample what Stanley calls a "smorgasbord of educationally accelerated opportunities." Some, who live near by, are ferried by their parents to...
The Cornell lacrosse team won its 29th straight game and its second consecutive NCAA championship Saturday, unleashing an awesome first-half barrage and going on to rout Johns Hopkins, 16-8.
This week's championship battle will match the traditional power against a team with a modern new program for the 70's. Hopkins has won an amazing 27 national championships and, since World War II alone, has produced 55 first-team All-Americans. The sport's Hall of Fame sits...