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...have just run across your Dec. 11 story on James McGill and his experiment with high-school homework...
Coach Jack Barnaby's players have now downed McGill, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Williams, winning 35 individual matches and losing only one. The freshman team also remained undefeated, in seven matches, routing the Ephmen first year men 9 to 0, while the Jayvees lost...
...first time in several years the squad rates on even terms with such consistent powers as Yale and Princeton, and Barnaby is looking for his first victory over the Elis since before World War II. So far this year the team has posted shutout victories over both McGill and Dartmouth, winning 18 matches and losing none...
...homework group had the edge in economics, but the non-homework group (possibly less bleary-eyed) scored slightly better in comprehensive tests of "social-studies abilities." In American history the two groups were even. In all tests, score differences were so small that McGill could only draw one conclusion: in the social sciences, at least, high-school homework neither helps nor hinders very much, merely takes up time. McGill's advice to his colleagues on homework: forget...
...varsity squash team routed Dartmouth here Saturday, 11-0, winning 33 games to the losers' 4. It was the second straight sweep for the Crimson, which blanked McGill last Friday, 7-0. The freshman team also won, downing St. Paul's School, 4-1, on the losers' courts...