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...joints. Main item in her treatment was heavy dosage with hormones of the cortisone family, which relieved her pain and kept her joints reasonably flexible. But Still's disease weakens a child's bones and hampers growth; ironically, cortisone aggravates that part of the problem. By a feedback mechanism in the body's complex interplay of hormones, cortisone tends to shut down the pituitary gland, source of the all-important growth hormone. In five years, Betty grew only four inches. Off cortisone for a while, she grew five more, but after that she seemed condemned to live...
...typlical student. When grades are coupled with a system of impersonal lectures and final examinations, they students from entering unknown of study. It becomes advantageous to "play from strength"--to take where one feels competent, rather than risk failure--quite possible in the sense of personal instruction where. This "feedback" effect the whole purpose of teaching, which is, in Riesman's view, to help the student accomplish something...
That the University needs more pport from local government is ident from the recent "stills" ntroversy, when few local officials ood by the University in its oppotion to the office building. Educat potential community leaders great feedback value: For exple, Brown-Providence relations happy precisely because so any of the town's influential citi are Brown alumni. Moreover, arvard University has a responsity to the city, especially since it to ignore the benefits it reap from a progressive urban ewal policy. If Harvard wants city to back its bid to buy the A lots when all University land...
...more durable numbers, and Cyril Ritchard went Around the World on 80 Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco's but an Indian Weed...
...good tutor, the machine insists that a given point be thoroughly understood, either frame by frame or set, before the student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points out and corrects wrong ones--"using this immediate feedback not only to shape his behavior most efficiently but to maintain it in strength in a manner which the layman would describe as 'holding the student's interest...