Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But his environment did widen. First it was the State of Ohio when he went to the Legislature. Something had to be done about aviation, now a public matter. So David Ingalls took once more to the air. The State adopted his aviation code in one magnificent sweep. Next, it...
The figures compiled in order to determine how far the cosmopolitan purpose of the House Plan is exemplified in the selection of Sophomores and Juniors for five units next year, tend to show that numerically at least, men of different school training, geographical environment and academic interests will be distributed...
Singer Clara Clemens, wife of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and only one of Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens' four daughters to survive him, now a lecturer and writer (My Father*) on her father's life, revealed that when she faces a public from the platform...
It is our conviction that this cardinal principle, the adjustment of the college to life, has been ignored in the development of an extra-curricular program at City. We have stoutly defended the cause of extra-scholastic activities in these columns, because we believe that education is not so much...
...Professor Lange respects his own conclusions, says that so far as the causes of crime are concerned, "inherited tendencies play a predominant part. . . . Heredity does play a role of paramount importance in making the criminal; certainly a far greater role than many are prepared to admit." But he thinks "environmental influences are of particular importance for a criminal because his very nature includes a far greater amount of suggestibility than the average man. In this way he often becomes a helpless victim of any environment in which he happens to find himself...