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...nation's oldest incorporated independent school, Andover goes from ninth through twelfth grade. Its 683 boys and 405 girls come from 45 states and 14 foreign countries. About 6% of the students are black or Hispanic; there are also students like the coal miner's daughter who was unable to sleep in her dormitory bed because she was used to sleeping on the floor (the school lent her a sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shedding That Preppy Image | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...serenity, the Dallas plan called for the busing of some 17,000 students (out of 136,500 in the district) and a heavy concentration of federal funds in schools that were still largely minority. But its centerpiece was a progressive concept: the "magnet" school, designed to lure ninth-to twelfth-grade students of all races by offering them a variety of educational inducements. Desegregation in Dallas, claimed Estes, would pose "a stark contrast" to the violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found it inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to the Drawing Board | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Twelfth-ranked Harvard is now looking to Saturday's home game with 13th-ranked Princeton. The team has been sluggish lately but players attribute this largely to travelling--eight of the first nine games have been away. There should be no problem getting ready for the Tigers, squad members...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Faught Destroys UNH Laxmen, 13-7 | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...expected, freshman standout Bobby Hackett led the Crimson cruise through Long Beach's Belmont Plaza Pool. The Yonkers flash placed in three individual events, and combined with teammates Malcolm Cooper, Julian Mack and Michael Coglin to grab the twelfth spot in the 800-yd. freestyle relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Swim Team 15th at NCAAs | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Last weekend at the ECAC fencing tournament, at which Chipman, Vastola and epeeman Robert Kaplan qualified for the NCAA's, Chipman won only five of 12 bouts and Vastola captured just four, as he became the twelfth and final eastern foil qualifier for the nationals...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Fencers Make NCAA Finals | 3/18/1978 | See Source »

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