Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman for a period of years accentuates a man's feminine characteristics. Few men can resist the trend. Excessive "mothering" or "fathering" a child greatly influences adult sex expressions...
...large majority of those interested will have ample leisure to study the situation. The recent additions to the General Motors family will present a problem such as to delight the hearts of conscientious brand spotters, but where are they to fit in the scheme of things? Obviously they overlap the price classes of other members of this quality group and old heads engaged in the business of selling cars as well as spotting them will be hard put to it explaining just why one is better than another. Things have gotten so fine that the very difficulty of making...
...thinly disguised but supposedly necessary turnstile to force men to supply themselves with credentials before they enter the Reading Period. Those who have been there before, and know the amount of required or suggested study that fetters the period should be little inclined to let course work overlap. But if in the light of human nature this examination is inescapable; and if in the light of educational tradition its November predecessor is desirable: such allowable conservatism still does not make the presence of a third hour examination in such reading courses as English 32, anything but an inexcusable and cluttering...
...present danger lies in the direction of increase of instruction without considering ultimate aims and basic requirements. Already there is some evidence that our courses overlap--that we tend to build up instruction in separate fields as if in each field the foundations were to be repeated...
What is the answer? What can be learned from this bewildering variety of testimony for the guidance of educational policy? One thing seems to stand out clearly. The period of college life is the period in which the plasticity of youth and the maturity of manhood overlap. All influences received during this period are likely to be profound and lasting. Since his college life is almost his only life during these years, and since a student attends college not only with his mind, but with his body and his soul as well, the college touches him at every point...