Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Senior Fellow Thomas Lamont died in April, 1967, the Corporation had been hunting for a new member. The selection often takes a year or two, but it usually begin early enough so that when the oldest Fellow resigns at the traditional age of 70, his replacement is ready...
...recalling no previous such incident at the College, Adams finally connected a cause to these unusual events. Said Adams, drawing up all the venom he had for Andrew Jackson who had defeated and slurred him six years before, and then been given a Harvard degree, "the temper of the age" has affected students to consider themselves "in a standing rather of equality than of subordination to their instructors." It was the new age of equality that Quincy cited as the cause. At least in doing this he fingered a deeper reason for the extraordinary events...
...Adolescents of college age are the highest potential suicide risk within the population," Ross stated in a paper prepared for the 50th annual session of the American College of Physicians. Only automobile accidents take the lives of more college students than suicides...
...nearly 100,000 college students threatened suicide, one in ten of these actually attempted it, and 1000 succeeded in taking their own lives. In the 15 to 19 age group, where auto accidents and cancer are the leading causes of death, suicide takes the lives of 700 each year...
...suicide rate for college students is 50 per cent higher than for Americans in general of a comparable age, Dr. Ross said, adding that the number of suicides has been rising in both the high school and college age groups...