Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where to get the stuff," bewailed Dr. Williams. "Actually, there is not enough of the hormone in the world to permits experiments on animals. There is no proof that it even has any effect on humans.... After getting 20 to 30 long-distance phone calls a day on the subject, I have finally unplugged my phone...
...concessions which can be allowed to non-honors students, and, in general, procrastinating argument. Yet the issue remains essentially unchanged: will the College recognize the existence of students who, while not interested in meeting honors requirements, can and will benefit from working in small groups on individualized subject matter...
...cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous (The Doors of Perception) Huxley, produces in devotees a vivid immediacy of experience that the Indians consider far superior to the liturgy the paleface missionaries have to offer...
...when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years of mathematics and almost six years of science...
...education. ¶ Keep local control of curriculum, but strengthen schools by the establishment of national minimum standards. Hechinger suggests a National Board of Education Advisers, appointed by the President, from citizens of widely varied occupation. The board, apparently, would determine only the minimum attention given to each subject; Hechinger would rule out "any interference with matters of personnel, curriculum, teaching methods and the selection of textbooks...