Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the months, the Gremlin Club grew. The Padre, as the Gremlins called him, took other boys out of police courts, made himself responsible for their behavior. He organized boxing lessons, lectures, hot-dog parties. Whenever a Gremlin slipped, the boy went up before the Gremlin Court for punishment. Sometimes the sentence was a match with the club's best boxer. Once a group of Gremlins were arrested for bombing a schoolhouse. They confessed, but said that they had done it the night before they had met him. After a little sleuthing, Father Swartsfager found they were telling...
...principals, the School Board of Superintendents reasserted the city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to grade, regardless of attendance, behavior, or ability. The chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began to pepper the newspapers with a spatter...
...University's stake in the publication of an Album is greater than that of any other group, including the classes concerned. This is particularly true as the classes of '42 to '49 did not see Harvard on its best behavior. Accelerated courses, show lines, and crowded rooms are not the usual concomitants of happy college days. Men who were in Harvard during and immediately after the war may be inclined to look back on their undergraduate days as an extension of Army training or as just another vocational course. An Album, artificial cohesion though it might he will...
...This is also manifest in the domain of sex education, where our negativism is notorious. We start early to speak obscurely of sexual prohibitions but impart very little legitimate positive information to the child. We ignore the fact that, unlike brute animals whose sex behavior is largely instinctual, the rational animal's sex practices are learned. . . . Catholics have much to learn from Freudians regarding sex development and the capital importance of early sexual experiences. . . . Indeed, Freudians can teach much regarding the entire role of family figures in the upbringing of a child, regarding the ideal father, mother, brother...
...their holy city of Munich, but late, a month after the last shot." To his desk come scores of German newspapermen begging licenses to enable them to find work. As he flays the unheroic, passive collaborators among them, Cooper becomes obsessed by a desire to know what his own behavior would have been under similar circumstances...