Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this eating before mass some innovation in Catholic observance? Was so high a prelate as the Archbishop subtly establishing a new custom? Silly idea! The esteemed Free Press, under normal newspaper pressure, which is inconceivable to the uninitiated, had made an error, an error easily forgivable when the reader reflected...
...results of these early tendencies are equally unhappy for both groups of students. If the public school man is normal, he grows sensitive over his social disadvantages. Then study becomes for him what the psychoanalysis call "a defense mechanism", an avenue of escape from his unsatisfactory relations with his fellows. He comforts himself by scorning those activities in which he cannot excel. He retreats to his room, studies with redoubled energy, and seeks satisfaction and justification in grades...
...prejudicial to the members of the group as to the college. The purpose of education, he has said, is to break down the barrier of race and draw the individual into the main stream of American life and thought, and this can be most effectively done when the normal racial proportions are preserved...
...inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
Furthermore, the rural education division showed that, notwithstanding the large number of "recruits" enrolled, the teacher- teaching institutions had actually graduated only 40,484 teachers in 1923-24. Half of these were needed to take care of the normal increase, due to population growth, in elementary school enrollments. That left only some 20,000 trained teachers to fill vacancies caused by teachers leaving the profession. At that rate, the crops of new teachers now coming up are sufficient only if each teacher remains actively on the job for 30 years instead of six. In fine, said the rural education division...