Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday, August 7: last day Arts and Sciences students may withdraw from Summer School...
...following are included in the events scheduled by the Summer School for the week beginning today...
Like 5,974 other gifted high school youngsters on 105 U.S. campuses, these teen-agers are going to college this summer. They are the guests of the National Science Foundation, under its new program for stimulating wider and deeper interest in science. The colleges provide the labs and teachers, with the foundation's financial support...
...Said Northwestern's lanky Timothy Brown, 16, who comes from Lexington, Neb.: "I only wish I could be five people so I could take it all in." The thing all the youngsters like best is the grown-up atmosphere in the labs. "It's not like high school, where the teachers are standing over you and threatening," said Edward M. Chait...
...still well worth reading. Feibleman is a fine stylist who almost never gets his hands sticky. He sees people shrewdly, and can set down small scenes with great poignancy. The episode that ends the book is a masterpiece-even though it parodies the whole novel and the entire Southern school of literary fungus munchers. After the hero dies, a dotty old aunt is sent to an asylum, where a doctor sets her to knitting a scarf. "The scarf is measured on Monday of each week," reports Author Feibleman, "and this is not a simple matter. It is now thirty-five...