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Private boarding schools, despite their social amenities and allegedly tougher curricula, take a scholastic back seat to high schools. Research made public this week by a Grant Study anthropologist reveals that College students with a high school background consistently outrank their private school counterparts.
"There was a striking similarity between the average Scholastic Aptitude Test and Mathematical Aptitude Test scores of the public, private day, and private boarding school students," the report continues. "There was no evidence that the groups of private school boys in the series were measurably different from public school students...
"We have no magic formula for scholastic success," Perry declares. "Often, counseling and tutoring help a student little, but," he says, "we like to think that we help 75 percent of the men who come to us."
Two basketball players Pat McCormick and George Hauptfuhrer, as well as an ex-football man, Mary Jenkins, form the Crimson hurdling corps at the moment. McCormick, who will do both the lows and highs, was an all Ohio scholastic hurdler. He's a Sophomore. Hauptfuhrer, this year's basketball captain...
Bernard, former all-Maryland scholastic goalie, had 22 saves, several of which were of the sensational nature. But the Harvard attackers took very few shots and had the ball stolen from them before they could place themselves in position to score. It was their first game of the season.