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Roomates and section men, parents and Radcliffe girls, all will come up for analysis in "Social Relations 183." "Developmental Trends in Personality" studies the way a personality should grow during adolescence and young adulthood, and why it often doesn't grow as it should. Seats in Emerson 211 will double as psychiatrist's couches for the occasion...
...veterinarian and six assistants treat the dogs with antibiotics whenever infection threatens. By the time the man with the needle comes round to give them their radioactive injection, they have much that is pleasant to remember. Says Dr. John Z. Bowers, head of Beagleville: "These pups grow to adulthood under conditions far better than most beagles enjoy. And who can tell how many human lives are saved every time one of them dies...
...that some mothers of teenagers do not get up to get breakfasts for their children [TiME, July 19]; but why blame mother entirely? A teen-ager should begin to take on some responsibility of adulthood. He or she . . . has as much time as anyone else-exactly 24 hours a day . . . My nine-year-old can already cook an egg (boiled or fried), make a piece of toast, squeeze an orange and pour a glass of milk...
Traditionally the suffrage line has been drawn arbitrarily at age 21 as the reasonable demarcation between adolescence and adulthood. Many political observers now maintain that 18 rather than 21 is a more reasonable dividing point, at least as far as political participation is concerned. As publicity increases no doubt the sentimental arguments "old enough to fight, old enough to vote" will gain much popular supper. But University faculty members who have long studied various aspects of political behavior, generally offer more incisive arguments in favor of extending the suffrage...
...talk to Mom, and neither talks to Junior." What should they talk about? For one thing, tension is a common ingredient in modern life, said Dr. Flanagan, so both parents and adolescents should talk about whatever is eating them. More specifically, youths in the limbo between childhood and adulthood want to know about these things, which he suggested as topics for family councils...