Word: norms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...define what constitutes a solely pre professional course, nor do we attempt to define what constitutes appropriate rigor. Harvard normally seeks to make decisions in accordance with general guidelines rather than rigid definitions. The military training goal of the ROTC programs is a clear violation of the liberal arts norm...
...willing to go out with a blind boy: "There are two reasons why a girl would go out with me," he said. "Either they were doing their bit for humanity, or they were trying to tick off their parents." Also, girls tend to be looking for the norm, especially in high school, and the first few years of college. A blind man would not exactly be considered an eligible husband. "When I was in high school I used to get some tremendously imaginative excuses," Hal said. "I used them in a play I wrote. It was about a teenage idol...
While the officials must also suffer the abuse of fans, they get some of their worst knocks from the coaches. When N.F.L. Films placed a microphone on Atlanta Falcons Coach Norm Van Brocklin during one game, they had to discard much of the dialogue because it consisted of profanities hurled at the officials. His prime target was a man of Polish extraction who had recently anglicized his name. "You Polish son of a bitch," yelled Van Brocklin. "You may have changed your name, but you're still a Polish son of a bitch...
...mode of life to which they are accustomed. Such an experience, according to the girls in COWI, has no educational value. As Nancy Scheibner '69, a leading member of COWI, explained at an All-College Meeting, "Wellesley must find her identity as an educational center in which the norm is no longer that of conforming to...a middle class cultural milieu but in which each individual is seeking to maximize her own creative potential and in which each individual sees herself as making a unique contribution...to the diversity of her college...Unless the college provides contact for diverse individuals...
...define what consitutes a solely pre-professional course, nor do we attempt to define what constitutes appropriate rigor. Harvard normally seeks to make decisions in accordance with general guidelines rather than rigid definitions. The military training goal of the ROTC programs is a clear violation of the liberal arts norm...