Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational system. Paternalism is the crime the Yale administration is charged with, and there is a good bit of truth to the accusations. In the past year, the Dean's office at Yale has sent personal letters to all students warning them not to cheat, has like a stern parent snatched the pleasant tradition of Derby Day away from them, has compelled them to attend classes, and has scolded them for slouching and smoking in class...
After seeing its opening performance Monday, I cannot help comparing the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet with its parent group which came to Boston last year. Although the former does not boast any prima ballerinas, it is far from second rate. Perhaps its is the corps' youthful enthusiasm and lively imagination which inspires their lithe, confident movement. The male dancers are especially agile and graceful, and the group in general shows versatility seen too infrequently in classical ballet...
...admit that the tests could winnow out the bright and the quick. But they still did not pick out the hard-working or the talented. They gave no quarter to the late bloomers, made no allowances for children who happened to be overwrought during the exam. Cried one parent last week: "The test gets the child so worked up. My Patricia went out of the house white as a sheet, and couldn't eat any breakfast." Added another: "It's terrible to think that what a boy does at eleven will govern his whole life...
Humble is 72.4% owned by Standard Oil Co. (NJ.),and is its biggest U.S. subsidiary, but Baker runs it, from the Humble Building in Houston, pretty much like a sovereignty, looks on the parent company much as Texas looks on the rest...
Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, said last night that the University would look into a request of the Peabody School Parent-Teachers Association that the University sell the Harvard Observatory grounds as a site for a new Peabody school...