Word: personalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effective, an anti-discrimination law would have to insist that colleges take the 1000 smartest applicants, and consider nothing else. But tests often fail to predict how a person will do in college...
Schroeter noted that H442 could harm whole universities and their students for the political opinion of one person on the faculty. He pointed out that the Attorney-General has not had to prosecute a single person under loyalty laws currently extant...
Accent on Interest. Beloff complained that, except for a few "radicals such as Chancellor Hutchins of the University of Chicago," there is "a certain lack of boldness" on the part of educators. They seem sold on the idea "that every young person has a right to a higher education, irrespective of ability or previous training." And what is the result? A notion, said Beloff, "that the total number of students is more important than the quality of the work done...
...Society is an organization devoted to telepathy, which is the process of sending thought messages from one person to another, and with clairvoyance, which is one person's mental awareness of certain physical occurrances around...
...object of the experiment is to see whether a person's "belief" affects his extra-sensory ability. In tests conducted at the Harvard Psychological Clinic several years ago, the sheep, or believers, have shown telepathic ability repeatedly in scientific tests, so that the experimenters considered the results significant proof that this power exists. The goats, on the other hand, have shown consistently telepathic aptitude...