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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...
...sharply honed minds, today's students are increasingly unable to see any connection between their mnemonic classes and the skills they will need as 20th century adults. Children from eleven to 15 are required to recite entire scenes from the plays of Corneille, Moliere and Racine, plus a spate of La Fontaine's Fables. Even in top classes, pupils must memorize statistics on agricultural, industrial and energy production for long lists of tiny nations. Teachers are pleased to consider themselves "priests of the intellect," as one put it; they are often so remote that they refuse...
Though the sentences for many crimes are prescribed by law, judges often have enough leeway to offer a choice between prison and other punishments-with all sorts of strange conditions attached. It is not clear whether or not those conditions are always legal, but defendants faced with a recent spate of such unusual choices have consistently rejected prison...
...going on in sport and make it what it can and should be." His new book, called The Athletic Revolution (Free Press; $3.45), is long on rhetoric and short on solutions, but its compilation of articles, speeches and case histories is nonetheless the most penetrating of the spate of recent books* that question not only the structure but the philosophy of sports...
Thank Warner Berthoff for his letter "Concerning the Events Last Friday." It's the first evidence of clear thinking I've encountered in the spate of hysterical response to an event which people don't even know what to call so they call it Last Friday. I wasn't there, but from various reports I've read it seems to me that what was going down had nothing to do with curtailment of freedom of speech. It was a political rally, and there were more people on one side of the issue shouting louder than the people on the other...