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Basso Pinza stopped singing. "Little boy," he said, "stop waggling your foot." "Who, me?" said the urchin. "Yes, you," said Basso Pinza, waggling his own foot. "Please don't waggle your foot this way; it interferes with my tempo." The concert went...
...arrested adolescents. The emotional impulses and cravings with which a child is born - love, fear, the need for affection and for the sense of belonging to a group - are bedeviled by many witches. Besides the timeless family jealousies and bickerings that make a child feel insecure, the accelerating tempo of modern life, the danger and excitement that fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most prominent mental characteristic" of western civilization. Dr. Prescott found that by & large even the schools create tensions in children, by regimentation, by making them...
Where the responsibility should be placed for this decline in what was formerly the backbone of education is difficult to determine. Certainly some of it can be attributed to "the tempo of modern life" with its insistence on immediate, practical, marketable qualities. The rapid shift in the last decade from English as the most popular field, through Economics during the great Depression, and now to Government since we have lost faith in unhampered economic forces as a social panacea, illustrates the variable nature of students' desires...
This unfortunate tendency was only too apparent in the recent batch of annual reports. Because Dr. Bock ventured to illustrate his point that the tempo of modern life is hard on the nervous system, it was instantly interpreted as a direct rebuke at Benito Mussolini for upsetting the equilibrium of Harvard University. This impression and the accompanying ridicule were not Dr. Bock's fault, but he should have known better...
...blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall...