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...years in advance on how to take the tests. Milton Academy, for example, holds SAT preparation sessions. Many other schools such as the Detroit Country Day School in Michigan have started to coach their students and others in "exam tricks." Coaching centers such as Test Prep Services, the John Sexton Test Preparation Center, and the Stanley Kaplan Educational Center, all with branches in Boston, help people who can pay the fee to improve their scores. Until recently, ETS refused to admit that coaching could improve scores on their tests, but with the recent release of a Federal Trade Commission Report...

Author: By Marc J. Jenkins, | Title: Testing: Questioning the Standards | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

Until the city grants the occupancy permits, the group will hold only three 40-minute meditation periods a day, usually involving ten people at a time, Dennis J. Lennox, the group's sexton and the only person now living in the house, said yesterday. The CBA has not scheduled ceremonies and hasn't been able to move its library, he added...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Cambridge May Bar Buddhist Occupancy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

Almost. The four-mile ceremony of pain ended with the Crimson ahead again, the Sexton Cup secure in Newell Boat House again, and the rivalry in the nation's oldest intercollegiate sporting event again in Harvard dominion. It took a new upstream record to do it, but the Crimson won its 17th straight and its 67th out of 114 Sexton Cups...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Yale was doing the same thing every week and had won the Sprints the year before, so it remained the boat to beat. The confrontation would come in two parts, with the Eastern Sprints opening the battle in mid-May, and the Sexton Cup settling matters in early June...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Altekruse notes that such a strategy would not work as well in the four-mile Sexton Cup encounter. "We knew that in a four-mile race, if we could hold them in the middle two miles, they couldn't be so psyched to pull away at the end," he says...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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