Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...redefinition" of health care in the latest Daedalus points up a growing recognition among the medical establishment that more pure science is not always better medicine. The increasing emphasis on human understanding in medicine may now prove as important in improving health as the hot pursuit of science already...
...their academic standards equal to those of the Ivy League, to disprove the current theories suggesting that women were physically injured by too much thought, and to insure that their graduates were as ladylike as any young women of their age and social class. The Sisters had something to prove--that women could benefit from high quality education, and that they could benefit from it just as much as men. Their entire structures were geared toward proving tht point...
...Radcliffe is likely to prove difficult reading for women who actually go here, if they get through Baker's rather academic style and the unwieldy plethora of facts about all the other colleges. She forces you to confront the fact that you came to Cambridge because of Harvard's great tradition of learning, but that, at the same time, that very traditional outlook has kept Harvard from responding to women's educational needs, with Radcliffe's administration just about powerless to fight for its students. Her statistics are not quite up to date--her research apparently ended...
BAKER OFFERS two explanations for the schools' reluctance to embrace contemporary feminism. First, she says, the women's colleges were founded to prove women the intellectual equals of men, and "having completed this mission, they abandoned ship in much the same manner women in the larger society abandoned feminism for a third of a century as soon as they got the vote." Second--and perhaps more telling, although Baker fails to develop this idea fully--the women of the Seven Sisters failed to support the feminist movement because, in the words of Bryn Mawr's Carey Thomas, herself an ardent...
Remember: Reckless driving doesn't prove who's right, only who's left...