Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest that Harvard's academic standards are suffering. Admission has never been harder; fewer than one in five applicants make it. The number of entering freshmen who score in the 90th percentile or better on the Scholastic Aptitude Test rises each year. With an unprecedented three out of four students planning on graduate work, even the gentleman's B is out. Some 70% of this year's senior class will graduate with honors...
Going Along. In one sense, Harvard is a very different place than it was even four years ago, but in another sense nothing has really changed. Harvard prizes academic freedom fiercely and it has long been a community in which reasoned dissent is tolerated easily. "The place has always been exciting," says Dean Glimp. "It's just exciting now in different ways." College authorities seldom try to direct the mores of the students nowadays, but that is not so much a sign of new permissiveness as it is a continuation of the old policy of treating undergraduates as responsible...
...University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, four pediatric hematologists recently got together with a psychiatrist and a social worker to find out just what is the emotional effect of a child's leukemia on the parents, on siblings and on the victim himself. More important, the researchers wanted to find out what could be done to reduce the impact. That something needed to be done was obvious from the fact that in at least one half of the 20 families studied, some relative had required psychiatric care...
More remarkable was the insight of the child victims themselves. Most of those more than four years old, although not told directly of the diagnosis, "presented evidence to their parents that they were aware of the seriousness of their disease and even anticipated their premature death." The parents of 14 children tried to shield them from the diagnosis, yet eleven of these children indicated their sense of impending death. Only two teen-agers were told that they had leukemia and that there was no known cure for it. As a result of frank discussions, both their families reported "a more...
Presumably no one would baldly tell a child that he was suffering from an illness that was almost certain to prove fatal. Yet, say the San Francisco researchers: "It is a grave error to think that a child over four or five years of age who is dying of a terminal illness does not realize its seriousness. We have seen the pathetic consequence of the loneliness of a fatally ill child who has no one with whom he may talk over his concerns because his parents are trying to shield him. The question is not whether to talk about...