Word: se
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grows weary of being singled out from her Harvard classmates as a special case for observation and study and may rebel against the insistence that she immerse herself in the problems of women's role in society. Not every girl is passionately interested in women's education per se; some of the most intelligent would rather spend their time just being a chemist, or a teacher, or an artist. Or a housewife...
...anti-jockism at Harvard bad as anti-intellectualism; type of personality under exists per se at Harvard, and no reason why a varsity dispel the erroneous triad types by joining a final club A's. To those who ask " hell are you doing down at muddy field with a bunch animals when you could be your knowledge by reading ?" the athlete can reply " a college experience" much validity and pride as a of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Council, or any group...
...course, there is nothing evil about graduate study per se; certainly, for some people it is a meaningful addition to undergraduate education. But when 90 per cent of the Senior Class entertains thoughts of attending graduate school, something is terribly, disturbingly wrong. Either the College is admitting too many academically oriented students, or it is encouraging scholarly pretensions in too many men, or it is doing both of these things and most probably making other errors as well. If Harvard cannot instill in its students any values other than academic ones, it fails as a liberal arts college...
Today there is as much steam as ever-and more partners. Some 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs do-se-do in the U.S., and no one knows how many more people there are who are simply ready for a hoedown any old time. On village greens, in country barns, school gymnasiums and palatial estates (including the Palm Beach mansion of Post Toasties Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton Davies May) the grand-right-and-lefts go on all year long...
...everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England) Doodar- call to the tune of De Camptown Races...