Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adolescence had an inventor, it was Rousseau, who was cynical about man in civilization: "At ten he is led by cakes, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by amusements, at forty by ambition, and at fifty by avarice. When does he make wisdom his sole pursuit?" Rousseau saw wisdom in nature. Against the traditional Christian notion that children, scarred at birth by original sin, must be civilized through education, he felt that they were really innocent and that they are best educated through the emotions. In Emile, in 1762, he advised: "Keep your child's mind idle...
Better schools and new teaching methods are both needed by the cities, Pettigrew emphasized. But he went on, "Desegregation and educational upgrading cannot long remain the sole responsibility of inner school systems, even when bolstered by federal and state subsidies. In some cases, the central city is beginning...
...Urban desegregation and educational upgrading cannot long remain the sole responsibility of inner school systems," the report states. "In some cases, the central city is beginning to run out of while children in its public schools...
Center forward Jim Saltonstall, Harvard's sole first-team member in 1964 as a sophomore, was named to the second team...
...provides that local boards must take single men aged 19-26 before married men, and married men without dependents before those who have them. It also grants exemptions to those who fail the physical and mental examinations, those who have certain essential skills or occupations, conscientious objectors, sole surviving sons, and ministers...