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Trainer Jim Farrell, whose brother was a former Crimson track coach, worked on the new scheme with McCurdy. He said that the gloves "could be of real value." But, he added, "they could be just another fad. I've seen these things come and go for almost 30 years. The boys like to wear something different or colorful. It gives them a lift and seems to build their morale...
...never went to college and 20% did not even finish high school. What can be done to encourage the gifted student? Ten years ago, says Robert Havighurst, professor of education at the University of Chicago, scarcely anyone was asking that question. "Today, educating the gifted has almost become a fad...
Skip or Enrich. Though the fad is still largely in the talking stage, scores of U.S. cities have joined the talent hunt. But once the talented student has been identified by elaborate tests and teacher reports, the experts disagree on the best way of treating him. In some places there are special schools for the bright (e.g., The Bronx (N.Y.) High School of Science). Some cities have set up special classes; others allow a few gifted students to accelerate or skip grades. But since the experts do not agree on whether acceleration or segregation might do the talented more harm...
...martini in a refrigerator," he says, "any more than you can put in a kiss"; and he sums up his 1921 wedding to Marylander Eleanor Green in a quaint, jazz-age way: ''We exchanged sarcasms and fell in love, a well-known fad...
...conventional position (on the back with legs flexed on the abdomen) for a woman in the second stage of labor is "simply a newfangled fad," said the University of Mississippi's Dr. Michael Newton. "Sitting, kneeling, squatting or other positions have been used for countless generations'... In discarding age-old positions, have we adopted a technique which is simply more convenient for the mother's attendants?" The primitive positions enable the woman to use her uterine contractions much more effectively, Dr. Newton believes. His prescription: an adjustable back rest on the labor table so that the mother...