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Strong & Balanced. Such personalism fails to impress some campus observers. "The big picture is unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Personalists | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...disapprove of all dropouts. If dropouts lack "motivation," it may be a healthy reaction against too many rules and goals that-for them-are momentarily false. Adolescence is by definition a struggle to create a self. Sometimes an intelligent retreat is the best way to win. Says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford: "Leaving college may leave a student with a sense of unfinished business that will, in some cases, provide motivation for learning for the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Famous Dropouts | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Among those presenting papers were D. W. MacKinnon, Saul Rosenzweig, Nevitt Sanford, Thelma Alper, Robert Holt, M. Brewster Smith, Anthony Davids, Gardner Lindzey, Charles C. McArthur, and John Money...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Papers Given at Two Day Meeting Of Psychologists | 6/1/1957 | See Source »

HARVARD PRINCETON Adzigian, 3b lf, Brown Prouty, lf cf, Nevitt Bilodeau, ss rf, Rice Owen, 2b 3b, French (Capt.) Gibbs, cf 2b, Sandbach Colwell, 1b ss, Lynn Tittmann, rf 1b, Fallon Maguire (Capt.) c. c, Johnson Ingalls, p p, Morris Starting time: 3 o'clock, Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY TEAM FACES PRINCETON MINE HERE | 5/2/1936 | See Source »

PRINCETON HARVARD Levan, cf 3b, Adzigian Nevitt, rf lf, Prouty Sandbach, 2b ss, Bilodeau French (Capt.), 3b 2b, Owen Johnston, c cf, Gibbs Chubet, ss 1b, Colwell Hill, lf rf, Tittmann Spencer, 1b c, Maguire (Capt.) Reichel, p p, Ingalls At Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON, TIGER IN FRACAS ON NASSAU BALL FIELD TODAY | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

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