Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crime, war, oppression, and the other social cataclysms of the world may be traced to the "degenerate trends in human evolution which are producing millions of animals of our species inferior in mind and body," Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, declared in a Lowell Lecture last night...
...crucial encounter" is the way Coach Carr defined the clash with the Bruins, who came up from Providence with "an inferior record" but inspired play. This League business is definitely a headache for the coach, because Harvard, being near the top, is continually on the defensive. "Every team comes down to knock us off," he complains, but Carr is confident that the Johnson outfit won't be stopped by the Elis...
Alarmed at Progressive Education's rapid spread, a handful of educational traditionalists, including Professor Bagley, last February organized a group called the Essentialists, issued a manifesto. Their indictment : the new movement has made U. S. education "effeminate," has made U. S. children inferior spellers and readers. Their proposal: more attention to discipline, systematic work, "essentials" (such as the 3 Rs). This platform raised a cheer here and there, but the Essentialists have not yet slowed up the Progressive marcb...
...Yardlings have definitely not exhibited the ability to capitalize on their strong power plays. They were nosed out by an inferior Exeter eleven, and against Worcester, the Freshman managed to win by only two points although outrushing the Academy 14 first downs...
...experts, early marriage, brief acquaintance before marriage, petting in adolescence, inadequate sex instruction, have little effect on marital happiness. But relative mental ability counts: a bright husband is likely to be unhappy with a stupid wife; a wife is happy if her husband is superior, unhappy if he is inferior...