Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once outside, Sarah Lawrence students are not at a loss for things to do. "B'ville," Scarsdale, Yonkers, and the "City," provide no end to extra-curricular activities. Bronxville's most patronized joint is the "Greasy Spoon," a small place on the other side of the tracks, where the clientelle varies from cops and switchmen to college students and their friends. Although no "intoxicants" are allowed on campus. New York State is not dry, and 18 is the legal age for drinking. Local establishments, The Tap, Barge, Maxl's and many others, provide a convenient rendezvous for dates...
Favorite aperitif with S.L.C. demoiselles is straight bourbon, according to the "Spoon's" congenial bartender. But some don't need to be coaxed to down a Martini, Manhattan, or Diaquiri, Most, however, stick to beer...
...Raushenbush feels that Sarah Lawrence must find out exactly how well its system works. She does not want the don-tutee relationship to deteriorate into a spoon-feeding process of education. For the last four years, the Dean together with a special committee has made a study of the class of '52 in the hope of tracing the development of the Sarah Lawrence girl through her college education...
Alexander Clark, assistant director of the office, thinks the "100-percenters" are wrong, but for different-reasons. He asks the basic question: "Are you going to spoon-feed your man with a lot of jobs that you hand to him on a platter, or are you going to train him so he can go out and find a job for himself...
...Spoon-feeding, Clark feels, is way out of line with Harvard's whole teaching tradition. "From the day a man gets here," he says, "he is told he will have to turn himself into a tough-minded, independent thinker. He starts going to his courses and finds his only big 'must' is being present at examinations. He must arrange his whole home-work schedule himself, as well as almost everything else he does...