Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Principal Brown proudly: "We don't know how the Russians are doing with their emphasis on compulsory science education. But I'll bet our volunteer students could top anything at their level in the Soviet Union...
...series of elective courses to pry his students out of their grooves by giving them glimpses of knowledge having nothing specifically to do with their fields. Last year 196 students signed up for the program; this year the enrollment jumped to 250. Though the courses are on the "graduate level intellectually." they are stripped of all technical jargon, require no specialized background. The whole idea is to make the broad concepts of physics intelligible to the future historian and major historical themes understandable to the physicist...
...earth or how long that takes. We do not know how much then enters the human body, or at what rate, or what the mechanism of transfer from food to animals and humans is. I do not believe that strontium 90 will be permanently harmful at its present level, but if experimental explosions continue at the present rate, there will come a time when the human body will be seriously harmed. It will then be too late to do anything about...
Basic Skills. For upper-level retarded children (with IQs from 51 to 80) who have no emotional or physical disabilities, the public schools in many cities now provide special classes. There the slow learners acquire such basic skills as reading, arithmetic, telling time, using the telephone, handling money. With patient training, most of these youngsters may eventually find jobs. Some schools teach their girl students how to put on lipstick and dress attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with...
Back to the 19th Century? The Congregationalist president of Amherst College, Charles Woolsey Cole, takes a more hopeful view of the phenomenon-at least at college level. In Harper's he writes: "Youth at present is almost completely monogamous in a thoroughly established fashion, and it is aggressively sure that its customs and ways are right...