Word: parental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the red-&-gold covers of Porter Sargent's famed catalog of 4,000 private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these two classes. Wiseacres know that practically anybody can find something to amuse and instruct him in this fascinating volume, whose 20th Anniversary Edition was published in Boston last week...
Since the parent departments control the courses, only the tutors can be discussed separately. (An estimate of professors and courses will be found in the articles on Chemistry and Biology). Despite natural human variation, most tutors are considered competent, if not excellent. Because the field is difficult to cover, tutorial work takes on particular importance, and though some tutors are not sufficiently at home in the field to know what must be stressed and what passed over, the average concentrator finds himself well enough prepared for divisionals...
Theses for honors must be either original "lab" experiments or "library" theses. The latter are not highly respected by the Department, while the pressure of "lab" problems accentuates the need for a laboratory designed for biochemists and not for the parent divisions...
...seduced child* is usually very seductive, although it may not be clear whether this is the cause or effect of their experiences. ... In a young child, the sex experiences may tend to fixate infantile behavior. ... If the seducer is a parent, the child becomes doubly preoccupied with problems of family relationship. There is surprisingly little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family...
...owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, 30 by Humble Oil & Refining, 25 by Standard of Louisiana, a New Jersey subsidiary, five by Carter Oil Co. Export's owners paid all expenses, guaranteed the big preferred stock issues. However, the new bonds are a direct obligation of parent Standard of New Jersey...