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...campuses differ about as widely on extracurricular activities, although all six de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics. Kenyon, the only men's college of the six, invites girls by the busload for its dances, but half the student body at Baptist Denison (1,300) and Ohio Wesleyan (2,000) is female. Wooster has no national fraternities, but Kenyon has eight, and 90% of the student body at Denison belong to fraternities or sororities. At Wooster the Presbyterian Church controls the administration; at Oberlin (no church affiliation) the faculty is the big wheel on campus, even sets salaries (top for a full...
...Manfred Bleuler estimated that one in every hundred people in the world is afflicted with schizophrenia. Medicine's war against schizophrenia, Bleuler argued, is as urgent as the drives against infectious diseases or cancer, but until now it has woefully lacked public support, largely because psychiatrists themselves differ so strongly about its causes and treatment...
...southern Ghana, who are torn between native and imported Western cultures, and it decreases as distance from the coast and Western influence increases. Said Dr. Forster: "I maintain we are all. endowed with basically similar mental attributes. It is quite clear that the psychological reactions of our patients differ in no way from the reactions of similar groups of patients elsewhere in the world...
...making wise decisions, but basket-weaving is something else again. "Social adjustment, in the sense of 'getting along with people,' or conformity, is not an educational aim. An education must include learning how to choose when it is best not to conform, and when one should differ." The fact, says Woodring, is that education must be primarily intellectual, for "all choice is intellectual...
...guests at the party, which was given by Mr. and Mrs. George Skakel Jr. "in honor of Mrs. Kennedy, who is Skakel's sister." Growing curiouser and curiouser by the sentence, the story quoted Dave Beck Jr. as saying of Bob Kennedy: "Although our policies differ, socially we get along famously...