Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than twelve years, Boston Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime (1937-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has contributed heavily (at least $12 million) to research in mental retardation. Last week he made another gift. The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Foundation (named for a naval aviator son who was killed in World War II) announced a $1,000,000 donation to Massachusetts General Hospital to set up and maintain a laboratory for research in diseases of the nervous system in infants and children. Principal neurological symptoms to be studied: mental retardation, cerebral palsy...
Independent Study. Mental effort is another matter. Says Dean Hoopes, sometime English teacher at Harvard, Yale and Stanford: "To a degree probably unmatched anywhere in this country, the students will find themselves responsible for their own education through independent study. Our aim is to render the professor dispensable at the earliest possible moment. Our university is a place of the mind, and the mind is an activity, not a repository. In this spirit we invite students to come and learn with...
...essayist proceeds however to draw some intriguing but quite probably specious conclusions about the mental state of today's American youth, its confusion over a double moral standard: the hedonistic view of the individual versus the Victorian ethos of the community. The essayist exhorts all future writers of Harvard Square sex-fiction to probe more deeply into the unhappiness which is the apparent outcome in most of the stories under discussion, and come up with a moral framework which is bigger, better and all in all more valid than that which exists or is in the process of ceasing...
...wonder that our mental hospitals are not only kept full but are brimming over when children are subjected to public terror and humiliation that they are too inexperienced to cope with and to rationalize the way adults have to. Have we delivered American childhood from the sweat shop only to turn it over to such Romanesque pastimes as the terrors and tensions of the Ottawa, Kans. brand of peewee baseball...
...admitted to an Arkansas Gazette reporter that he had placed three sticks of dynamite under Fire Chief Nalley's car and thrown ten sticks into the school board's office; Auto Salesman John Taylor Coggins, 39; Samuel G. Beavers, 49, a carpenter at the state mental hospital; and Truck Driver Jesse R. Perry, 24. Convinced of his case against all five, Gene Smith saw each arraigned on $50,000 bail, announced that a fourth dynamite attempt (against an office building occupied by the Prudential Insurance Co.) had fizzled when the dynamiters were scared away by heavy downtown traffic...