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Dates: during 1960-1969
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East's 36 charges are mostly the children of arty people ("We have no children of businessmen"). The school offers all the conventional subjects, from art to science, French, history and math. But students attend only classes that interest them. To hold his audience, a teacher may have to lecture while sprawled on the floor. Though most children attend regularly, and some even beg for homework, others play hooky for weeks at a time. One boy failed to appear once in two years. "I think that he must have had strong outside interests," East muses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School Without Rules | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...orders: "Get used to the field mice, screech owls, coyotes and katydids." Searching Their Faces. Apart from his performance, his brusque manner and salty language has endeared him to the corps. An Indiana farm boy who took a math major at DePauw University and went directly into the Marines from ROTC, Shoup earned a Congressional Medal of Honor by directing the 2nd Marine Division in its bloody, 76-hour assault on Tarawa, despite a badly wounded leg. Terse and tough, he constantly urges his commanders to know their men better. He asks them: "Do you search the faces of your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Uncle Dave | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Mania for Numbers. The origin of such mechanical music is much older than Orwell. The German mathematician Baron Gottfried von Leibniz (1646-1716) observed that "composers are simply men with a mania for numbers." Others have also noted the persistent relationship between music and math-between pure science and pure art. Barbaud himself began speculating on the musical potential of computers after reading that Haydn leaned heavily on the laws of probability and sometimes rolled dice to make a choice among possible chord and key combinations. Every type of music, Barbaud decided, must have its own laws, all equally rigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Machine Closes In | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...graduate enrollment (now 795) grow. To get better students, he raised admission standards; the average IQ of entering freshmen has gone from 118 to 127. Since 1954, average College Board scores have risen 78 points to 536 on the verbal aptitude test, and 77 points to 579 on the math aptitude test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: God & Man at Notre Dame | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...develop germ-free animals as a tool for medical research. Its radiation lab claims the nation's largest radiation chemistry program, and is now being expanded by the AEC to the tune of $2,200,000. Notre Dame also gets good grades in chemistry, English, history and math. But it still cannot afford sabbaticals for research or a psychology department (launching cost: $220,000). It is notably weak in social sciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: God & Man at Notre Dame | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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