Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard University is undertaking a study of "the forces that have produced normal young...
...normal" are Harvard graduates? Two years ago Mr. John Tunis managed to assemble data on his class ... and his article in Scribner's indicated that his class was "normal" only in its lack of distinction... The majority had failed to attain the goals they had established for themselves...
...perhaps it was expecting too much of American education to ask it ... to produce leaders from a set of average humans. This may indeed be calling for miracles, but certainly it is not too much to ask education to try to help as many youths as possible to a "normal" satisfactory life. The Hartford Courant
...August, U. S. recovery seemed in full marching order. The stockmarket, after a healthy reaction from the whopping June and July rise, appeared on the verge of breaking into new high ground. Factory employment gained 4.9% (1.5% is the normal August increase). And commercial loans, having sagged all through Depression II, completed in New York City three weeks of solid rise. Since then, however, European militarism has gradually got into full marching order. By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory...
...They learn of tutoring schools and mimeographed lecture notes. They get used to the animal heads and the menu at the Union. They acquire shoes and hats and slacks and friends like the rest. They find their places and the atmosphere gradually, unnoticeably, has meanwhile through some magic grown normal and livable. They get used to Harvard--their New room. And the Vagabond guesses that pretty soon he will get used to his New room, too. Till then he, too, will just grope hopefully for the light...