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...Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river fish Astyanex Mexicanus to total darkness produces hyperplasia and reduction in the relative number of pituitary basophiles." Caltech's awed President Lee A. DuBridge reports that most of his 1952 freshmen "would have flunked dismally in competition with our freshmen of today-except, of course, if the freshman of ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: NEXT YEAR'S BRIGHT FRESHMEN | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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