Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of the evil, to be sure, but that part against which least can be done directly in the way of remedy. The real offenders are the colleges themselves. Little by little, they have nourished, pampered, milk-fed their lusty infant until--lo! the child is stronger than the parent and threatens to reverse the normal order and rule the household...
What child is not, at one time or another, regarded as a prodigy? Let any baby spend an hour taking a twelve-jeweled watch apart, and no parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet...
Having made its discovery, the Bureau lapsed into silence again, with perfunctory repetition of the classic hortative: "Closer co-operation between the teacher and parent...
...created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department?the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration of the Government Merchant Marine but remain subservient to the parent Board...
...Enchanted April. There was only one difficulty with this play and that was its too minute observance of its parent novel. If you remember that delightful book it will come back as a gently genial tale of certain weary London ladies who happened to hire an Italian castle. The tale told of their blossoming under the soft suns of Italy. It was the type of thing that the drama, with its imperative demands for action, recaptures uneasily. All the recapturing possible on the stage has been effected, with a pleasant but not particularly engrossing result...