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...three years he compared Indian children in Guatamela with middle-class American children. By custom, the Indians isolate infants during their first year without toys or playmates. The children emerge from the experience severely retarded, Kagan found, and from ages four through six they are as much as three years behind American children...
...another must appear too broadly conceived. And this absence of "a single animating philosophy" does not mean a value-free system. Rather, as Patullo states, Harvard remains guided by a "strong sense of tradition and basic commitment to educational excellence" of I would add, a particularly elitist and custom-bound sort...
...beautiful," she observed in her diary. Their correspondence from the beginning was a model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved so much"). Their engagement was long and set about with squabbles over precedence and income that Victoria, as was her custom, eventually resolved with regal finality. Albert seems to have been sexually tepid, as Victoria apparently was not. His priggishness and diffidence, however, were compensated for by his immense marital devotion...
...natural Tory. Thus she ignored the Chartist riots of 1839, largely because no minister could persuade her that the rabble mattered. Albert and Victoria concurred on one political principle, that a sovereign's duty was to save "her" people from the blunders of their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous if I had any foolish draft or dis patch to show...
...works include one that portrays him supplying dowries for three impoverished girls, thus saving them from careers as prostitutes. That tale, combined with local folklore, eventually produced the St. Nicholas of European tradition, who reputedly brought gifts to children on the eve of his Dec. 6 feast day. The custom was later transferred to Christmas in many countries...