Word: taffel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convincing partisan of the Bronx High School of Science is its principal, Alexander Taffel, 47, who took over the job this year when widely known Former Principal Morris Meister became president of the new Bronx Community College. Says Taffel, onetime gifted student at Townsend Harris, a high school shut down by New York City in 1942 in a wave of economy and possible equalitarianism: "We do a better job than comprehensive schools do in their honors courses. The teacher is the key; in our school the teacher doesn't have his courses divided so that he has to spend...
...science-minded teenagers, the elite high school has another justification. Explains Taffel: "Many Nobel Prizewinners do their outstanding work in their early 30s. There's so much to learn that you have to do it early or you won't arrive at the frontiers of research in time. You can't specialize narrowly any more; biology flows into biochemistry and on into mathematics." Jerome Metzner, chairman of the school's biology department, agrees: "When you get a bright youngster and focus his interest early, the kid soars like a comet. He gets a five...
...doctorate, then teach math." Marriage waylays most girls heading for graduate school, but a survey of both sexes a few years ago showed that 13% of the school's alumni had taken two or more years of graduate study. Not all Bronx High students go into science; Principal Taffel maintains that those who do not are better grounded in what he pointedly calls "the other humanities" than graduates of most comprehensive high schools...
...calculus and calorimeters at Taffel's school; he recalls that he has attended four school dances since he took over in February, and last week tryouts began on a student-written play. There is no football team at Science (too expensive), but last year the school won the city tennis championship, in 1956 won the city mile relay and handball titles. Another sporting championship it picked off last year: the Interscholastic Mathematics Contest title...