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Many of Stanford's 2,820 coeds are now seeking contraceptive help at the nearby Palo Alto Planned Parenthood center; its director, Gloria Davis, complains that the clinic is so crowded with students that high school teenagers from the community are being squeezed out. Dr. James McClenahan, director of Stanford's health center, agrees that the. university itself should probably take over. Dr. Richard U'Ren, a psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that...
...McClenahan's attitude with regard to English grammar is the type of blinded, presumptuous pedagogism that should not be tolerated in a Board of Education [TIME, Feb. 26]. For his "purism" the Doctor can doubtless cite any number of authorities-except the language self...
...split infinitive is a natural English locution found in the best writers (e. g.. Byron, Carlyle, Browning). Greek used singular verbs with neuter plural subjects: the English tendency to do the opposite is caused by psychological and linguistic forces whose subtlety and complexity Dr. McClenahan probably never dreamed of, and an arbitrary interpretation of which even a trained linguistic scientist might hesitate to attempt...
...quoted Philadelphia Purist Dr. Howard McClenahan correctly on p. 44 of TIME, Feb. 26, isn't there some question whether or not Princeton's ex-Dean Mac himself indulged in a solecism when he said: "Such grammatical mistakes are inexcusable...
...from me to cast aspersions upon, or even question, Grammarian McClenahan's syntactical rectitude...