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Author Lebow, Eileen F

Title The bright boys : a history of Townsend Harris High School / Eileen F. Lebow
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : photographs
Series Contributions to the study of education ; no. 80
Contributions to the study of education ; no. 80.
Contents The Bright Boys -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 A LOOK BACK -- 2 SUB- FRESHMAN MOVES UP -- 3 STUDENTS AND THEORIES -- 4 CHANGE OF IDENTITY -- 5 HARRIS OBSERVED -- 6 PERPENDICULAR LEARNING -- 7 EDUCATORS' DILEMMA -- 8 FERMENT AND AGITATION -- 9 CLOUDS OVER 23RD AND LEXINGTON -- 10 TROUBLES ABOUND -- 11 SAM'S BOYS -- 12 A STATE OF "CHASIS" -- 13 BEGINNING OF THE END -- 14 TO PLAN OR NOT TO PLAN -- 15 WAITING IT OUT -- 16 FATAL SPRING -- 17 AVE ATQUE VALE -- REFERENCE SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary Annotation Townsend Harris High School in Manhattan was no ordinary high school. Named for the man who brought free higher education to New York City, students like Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Herman Wouk, Jonas Salk, and three future Nobel Laureates commuted from all five boroughs of the city in order to attend
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index
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Subject Townsend Harris High School (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.) -- History
SUBJECT Townsend Harris High School (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.) fast
Subject EDUCATION -- Secondary.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585389918
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