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...result has been a spate of new state laws providing financial aid to parochial schools-among the most comprehensive those of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. As one Pennsylvania legislator explained: "It costs us $850 to educate a child in the public schools, but we could keep a child in the [Catholic] schools for only $37 a year in state aid." But the new measures-tediously dubbed "parochiaid"-have raised a troublesome question. Do they purchase parochial school survival at the price of violating the First Amendment's command to make "no law respecting an establishment of religion...
Last week the Supreme Court vigorously reasserted the U.S.'s historic barrier between church and state. By a resounding eight-man majority, it declared unconstitutional the ambitious aid programs of both Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The decision (Lemon v. Kurtzman) struck many legal observers as a sign that a number of other current aid schemes would come in for close scrutiny. In its probable impact on schools, Lemon is likely to be surpassed only by the court's historic decisions on racial desegregation. It seemed certain to accelerate the end of the comprehensive parochial school as millions...
...skippers Robbie Doyle in the "A" division and Abbott Reeve in the "B" division, Harvard placed second behind Rhode Island in the New England finals...
...lobsterman and author of the bizarre novel Turpin believes that most people view such water as a static extension of their own property, "a background against which lawn furniture may repose." In Drifting, an antique-flavored narrative of his small-craft outings in Louisiana, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, Jones asserts his ancient riparian rights to re-establish spiritual and public relations with the basic element that flows and quenches...
...University of Rhode Island's Henry Bossett took second place with 35 points, narrowly edging the Crimson's Abbott Reeve with 38. Dave Little (41 points), Charlie Koch (56 points) and Rud Istvan (57 points) finished fifth, eighth and ninth for Harvard, respectively...