Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consideration of the proposed Atlantic-Gulf ship canal across Florida was dropped by the Public Works Administration today on the grounds it was outside the normal self-liquidating requirements...
Bryn Mawr. About three-fourths of the 350,000-odd U. S. college women attend co-educational institutions. There, say advocates of coeducation, they gain poise and maturity in a normal environment. There, say champions of separate colleges, they are distracted and dominated by men, miss the separate college's stimulus to leadership and a vigorous intellectual life. Says President Marion Edwards Park of Bryn Mawr: "Segregation at the college age doesn't hurt a bit. It teaches an appreciation of each other sadly lacking in women who have no chance to see their sex in control...
...officials expected about the usual number of students-300-odd undergraduates, 100-odd postgraduates. Of the undergraduates about one fifth will be well-groomed Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore socialites who will clique together on the campus, "come out" during their college careers. The rest will be mostly healthy, normal girls from well-to-do U. S. homes. Their campus appearance lately prompted the Bryn Mawr College News to declare: "Clothes might be sent to the cleaners, buttons might be sewn on and hair might be brushed without any serious reflection being cast on the Bryn Mawr intellect...
Elementary Schools: The eight-year elementary school in the U. S. . . . is the source of enormous, unwarranted waste. The waste in money . . . is of insignificant consequence as compared with the waste in the time and energy of children. . . . It is easily possible for all normal children to complete rudimentary education in six well-organized years of schooling...
Margaret, the family misfit, never gets along with the folks, hates the life to which she is condemned. When she is suspended from Normal School she makes her family miserable until they let her go to Manhattan. There she plunges into Greenwich Village, loses her irksome virginity, and has a desperate affair with a solid married man, who takes her to the Southwest and parts with her there. When they are both back in Manhattan again they drift inevitably together. But they can never marry, prefer not to think of the future...