Word: socio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although a total of eight new halls for freshmen were built in the next 15 years, only five of these had attached dining halls (these halls were later converted to Houses), and none of them seemed to achieve the socio-economic sifting Lowell had envisioned. The housing situation had improved somewhat by the late twenties, but was not really very different from what it had been...
...Newman research team found that 70% continued to have sexual relations up to age 70 - and some of them into their late 80s. The frequency showed a wide range, from four or five times a year to three times a week, with higher frequencies in the lower socio-economic classes. Main reason for discontinuance of marital relations: ill health...
Also, since most well-prepared applicants come from either prep schools or bette than average suburban high schools, the presently broad socio-economic base of the College would contract. "Harvard would be cutting itself off," said Bender, "from a group we've worked hard...
...saucers are imaginary. The author has an advance from his publisher, and he is going to see the thing through, complete with wiring diagrams and interviews with little green men. The case of the beatniks is similar; the unwashed T shirts are tangible enough, but is there anything new, socio-religio-artistically speaking, inside them? The author of this Baedeker to Beatland says, naturally, that there is. The barbarians, he reports, are within the gates of U.S. civilization, armed "not with the weapons of war but with the songs and ikons of peace...
...test scores are an accurate measure of academic ability, they do not exist in a vacuum. They are even less 'fair' measures of basic intelligence than an I.Q. test. Richard King emphasizes the fact that "performance in school, on tests, in activities is directly related to the socio-economic status of parents." Thus, as Harvard gets more selective, the applicant from the depressed area gets passed over. Not only is the poor boy not likely to apply, King points out, but he is not likely to compete well "on paper" with his richer, better-fed rival. Education, like charity, begins...