Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even to consider a full-time job or marriage. Now they are physiologically almost ready for these responsibilities, but are still stuck in the high schools they have outgrown. No wonder they listen to Motley Crue. Our educational system has become perversely destructive; that which was designed to foster growth is stunting it instead...
This broad social measure would force teens to support themselves at an earlier age, encouraging them to marry younger. Teens' mental growth would be in closer harmony with their physical growth, so that "education" would not hinder the maturation of teen-agers into adults...
...adults at a younger age. Ironically, this measure can itself further the cause of social stability which moralistic social critics seek to strengthen by mere rhetoric. Certainly, an educational system which complements and responds to physical maturation must be superior to one which ignores or seeks to contradict that growth...
...such explosive growth? "For starters, you don't have to carry an instrument around," says Katherine A. Kennedy '88, a member of the Radcliffe Pitches, the only all-female a capella singing group at Harvard. "But basically people like it because its just plain fun-fun to listen to, and fun to perform, especially in front of the larger audiences...
...School's money has funded an constantly growing set of programs. "Over the course of 75 years, it's changed quite a bit," Sulentic says, adding that the Bureau's growth has come largely because of "a move in the last decade toward a considerably greater variety of casework...