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...sharp contrast to the many colleges that still keep students "in a state of perpetual puerility," says President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, are such citadels of learning as New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill. There, he points out, students "may study four years of the Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river...
...Yardlings will take on the Tiger cubs. An Eastern Interscholastic butterfly champion, a New Trier veteran freestyler, and outstanding men in both other events combine to give the Princeton freshmen a 3:54.3 medley relay team, just about as fast as the Crimson varsity has produced this year...
...Easy. The high school student in 1961 has a new view of his possibilities. At Philadelphia's Central High School, for example, students now carry five major subjects instead of four. "They can do much more than we thought," says one teacher. At suburban Chicago's New Trier Township High School, 57% of the students took extra courses last summer, mostly for the fun of it. At Detroit's Cass Technical High School, A-average Senior Harley Shaiken, 16, spends 37½ hours a week in classes that range from qualitative analysis to enriched English literature...
...time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that...
...Yardlings should be able to contribute a great deal to next year's varsity. Chadsey, of the New Trier swimming school, is already swimming times better than the varsity breaststrokers did at mid-season. And iron men Turner and Stetz can help out in practically any event over 200 yards...