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...scofflaw spirit is pervasive. It is not really surprising when schools find, as some do, that children frequently enter not knowing some of the basic rules of living together. For all their differences, today's scofflaws are of a piece as a symptom of elementary social demoralization-the loss by individuals of the capacity to govern their own behavior in the interest of others...
According to Catlin, the exam becomes symbolic of a "more general failure"--and subsequently, fear of failing an exam is actually fear of failing--life. "Exam anxiety is a short-term symptom of fear of not living up to goals...
...symptom is alarming to the parents and bewildering to the affected children: breast development in girls six months to seven years old, and sometimes in young boys. Ordinarily, premature thelarche, as doctors call the condition, is a rare disorder, occurring in less than one out of 1,000 children. But in recent years doctors in Puerto Rico have reported more than 700 cases, mostly in children under two. Some slightly older patients display a fuller range of adult sexual traits, including menstruation at age seven. "When you see four cases a day of an uncommon condition, then you know something...
...surface, the twin appointments last week of Daniel Steiner '54 and Robert Scott as Harvard vice presidents may seem like a typical symptom of corporate bloating. In fact, the selections reflect President Bok's conscious desire for a decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such...
...test-makers and takers have agreed on one thing in all this, it's that the SAT is a limited instrument. To critics, scores measure superficial skills and draw arbitrary distinctions; to advocates, scores remain a symptom, not a cause, of education and society's ills. The more serious question has always been who should take the responsibility for trying to improve the sorry state of educational affairs symbolized by the national medians that dropped and dropped...