Word: triers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard had a second moment of greatness as John Pringle and Bill Chadsey both upset Dale Kelfer in the 200-yard breast stroke. Pringle won the event handily in 2:13.5, but the big surprise was Chadsey, who touched out Keifer, his former high school teammate at New Trier, for second place...
...severest test of the novel reader is not the interior-decorating lady author whose every point is petit; nor is it the literary bedroom peeper of the huff-puff-periphrasis school ("Metaphor pounded at his temples and his heart swelled with simile"). The most egregious trier of patience is, surely, the Author Who Has Read Proust. He will send his hero into the kitchen to mix a drink, say, but sure as Remembrance of Things Past comes in seven volumes, the ice tray wall remind the hero of another, earlier ice tray, half-shrouded in the mists of memory...
...Most public high schools are at a distinct disadvantage-they must admit all who want to attend. However, there are schools that have enriched programs for top students. New Trier Township High in Winnetka, Ill., Newton (Mass.) High and Melbourne (Fla.) High are a few examples. For some big-city students attending selective high schools, such as New York City's crack Bronx High School of Science and Lowell High in San Francisco, the curriculum is every bit as rugged and the entrance competition as tough as at Andover...
...comes a respected German historian who says this tale of Luther's dramatic Thesenanschlag (thesis posting) is pure legend. Dr. Erwin Iserloh, Roman Catholic professor of church history at Trier, declares that Luther merely mailed off copies of his theses to two of his ecclesiastical superiors, the Bishop of Brandenburg and the Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz, and let it go at that. Iserloh points out that the writings of Luther himself never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death...
...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...