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...words were expanded to phrases, phrases to sentences. Romain and Koeneke never directly corrected the twins. The girls seemed astonishingly innocent of the simplest childhood pleasures. They were totally baffled by a picture of a boy climbing a tree. The pathologists remember they provoked "exciting" language by taking the two outside to demonstrate tree climbing. After more than 100 hours of play were videotaped, Romain and Koeneke learned the girls' private language. But when the speech pathologists used it, Ginny and Gracie refused to answer. "They'd appear not to understand," recalls Koeneke, "or they'd just...
...imbedded" with a clause and add numbers up to a total of five, sometimes higher. Both girls have motor-coordination problems. One of Ginny's teachers discovered that she lacks what Jean Piaget defines as "object permanence," the developmental stage in which a normal child, at about age two, learns to retain images he or she does not see. But for Ginny, out of sight is out of mind. Says Catherine Pope: "The other talk still comes through. I suspect she and Gracie still do it behind closed doors." The twins now register IQ scores of 80 (up from...
Larry Countryman and Steven Schramm did the most damage, each recording two individual firsts. Countryman took the 1000 (9:37) and 500 (4:37.1) freestyles, while Schramm dominated both the low-and high-board diving...
Army won the two freestyle sprint races, but even these events produced a bright spot for the Crimson...
After squandering a two-goal, third-period lead, the Crimson icemen hung tough and killed off five minutes of overtime penalties to tie Brown, 4-4, at Meehan Auditorium Saturday night. Harvard now sports a 2-2-1 record...