Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent study we sought to measure students' "capacity to analyze problems by collecting relevant data and mastering pertinent arguments." With Professor of Psychology David McClelland's assistance, we had constructed the "analysis of argument" test. It consisted of an excerpt from a sermon by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale in which he criticized the permissive child-rearing practices advocated by Dr. Benjamin Spock, claiming that these practices were creating moral lassitude among the young, resulting in the most undisciplined age in history. After reading the article, students were asked to argue against his position. When this task was completed, they...
...return to the Norman Vincent Peale story. The analysis of the argument is an attempt to get at some fundamental dimension which I would like to call analytical thinking, one of the keystones of an even larger concept: that of learning how to learn. Having stated that I think we teach this somewhat better than most places, let me go on to develop the issue of how fundamental it is to our intellectual life and to suggest that Harvard must do an even better job at this...
...schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished on the islands of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Dominican Republic...
...Critics point out that there is already a doctor glut in many parts of the country and that too often the offshore schools provide second-rate training for third-rate candidates, half of whom fail the U.S. medical qualifying exams each year. "It's a disgrace," says Dr. Vincent Larkin at Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital. "A substantial number don't belong in medical school and will never be able to practice medicine...
Taxpayers for Vincent sued, saying their right to free speech had been abridged. The Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 3, that it had not been. The court found that the ordinance was narrowly tailored to meet Los Angeles' legitimate and significant goal of protecting the city's aesthetics. The First Amendment was not violated, because the ban applied equally to everyone and Vincent's backers could have advertised their candidate's virtues elsewhere and in other ways. To a disappointed Vincent, who lost the election as well as the decision, the court's belief...