Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Willie dear, do mind the paint...
...part. For example, grades were eliminated so that the young person might not suffer the frustration of feeling inferior to others . . . This enormous sensitivity and tenderness for the sense of security and adaptation of the child is a frightful travesty upon Dewey's thinking. His was a rigorous mind...
...this type of understanding of a country's customs and people, rather than a superficial tourist's view, that Donald B. Watt had in mind 26 years ago when he made plans for the first Experiment group to go to Switzerland. That first Experiment, in 1932, took a group of American boys to a camp with German and Belgian youths...
...comments of one eminent Princeton observer indicate the storm did not brew over night. "There is a feeling among many Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, not on things of the mind; that her outlook is immature and provincial, and that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...most observers agree that boredom is common among Exeter students, and that the recommended Advanced Standing Program should be a valuable remedy, they note that the "over-prepared" formula fails to explain several facts. First, Harvard Gen Ed courses may indeed have elementary lectures aimed at an extremely unsophisticated mind, but they certainly do not have elementary reading lists. Yet the Exeter syndrome involves rejecting reading as well as lectures. Second, the Exeter "A" student generally suffers less from boredom at Harvard than his academically less proficient schoolmate...