Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different from all other people. As a child [he wore] glasses, was skinny and tall, was never any sort of an athlete, had no school spirit, few friends, and wasn't looked at by girls. When the scientist grows up he gets married, usually at the age of about 30. He has no time for his wife as he is constantly engaged in inventing a supernatural device...
...birth (was silver nitrate used, and if premature, was oxygen administered?) through developmental stages ("eyes move together to follow moving object") to examinations by an ophthalmologist. Need for this was established after it was found that far more children than had been realized were having eye trouble before the age of seven. There is a similar page for bones and postural development. Reflecting current concern about radiation, a section has been added to record use of X rays, in both diagnosis and treatment, with the dosage of radiation used and the site affected...
...Just lately there have been numerous cases of parents bringing their babies for baptism aged a year or even 18 months. This is entirely wrong and contrary to the church's teaching." So, in his parish bulletin, writes the Rev. Horace Willson, Anglican rector of St. Mary's Church of Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. "It is only reasonable to expect a child twelve months of age to be frightened and resist the priest's attempts to pour water over its head. Some of the recent administrations could be likened to an all-in wrestling match, with...
Besides showing the need for more remedial schools and additional personnel, the school crisis has re-opened basic questions of educational policy. Mayor Wagner has proposed lowering the compulsory school age to fourteen, and the expedient of suspension poses the problem of the city's responsibility to educate the law-breakers...
...Herold C. Hunt of the Graduate School of Education, who has also served as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, believes "it would be unfortunate if people were to conclude that these students are uneducable. It is no solution of the problem at all to drop the compulsory age to 14." Hunt suggests that a type of work-study program might alleviate the situation. If the school officials could cooperate with local industry, education combined with on-the-job training might encourage a student's desire for education as well as providing him with useful vocational training...