Word: clear
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...TOOK LOCAL POLICE and state troopers less than an hour to clear University Hall of student protesters in 1969, battering heads with billyclubs, choking lungs with tear gas, and knocking Timothy H.S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the concrete. It took the Faculty less than one day to agree to set up a disciplinary body called the Committee of Fifteen, later the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), to punish these student demonstrators. It took less than two months for the Committee of Fifteen to penalize 135 students, forcing 16 to leave the University--many for good...
...should this be so? Though academics have churned out an enormous literature on the subject, no clear answers have emerged. Some believe in differences in brain organization, or the "natural" inclination of females toward "people" tasks (e.g., nursing, psychology, literature, teaching) and away from technical tasks. Others stress that high school coincides with the onset of puberty, when girls become more interested in boys than in building skills like math. Since the rise of feminism, however, female underachievement in math has been generally chalked up to sexism: the low expectations of parents and teachers are said to produce...
...elder James was not a pernicious father, and he certainly did not intend to drive Alice to self-destruction. But Strouse makes it abundantly clear that his remarks had a lasting effect. Denied the education and independence forced upon her older brothers, Alice had little choice but to stay home and hope for escape through marriage. By the time it became clear that proposals were not forth-coming, Alice had long since adopted a third Victorian alternative. Although she dabbled in community activities for the rest of her life, her main energies, from the time she was 20, centered around...
...time she reached her forties. Her list of infirmities resembles an-encyclopedia of nervous disorders common to nineteenth-century women: at various points in her life, her condition was called neurasthenia, hysteria, rheumatic gout, suppressed gout, cardiac complications, spinal neurosis, nervous hyperesthesia, and spiritual crisis. Although it never became clear how many of her problems were physical, Alice's condition was at least, in part, a matter of choice. After feeling slighted and neglected throughout a healthy childhood and adolescence, she discovered, during her first breakdown, that her father refused to leave her bedside. For the rest of ther life...
...conclusions. Alice's letters and diary, peppered with penetrating comments about the politics and social conditions of her time, reveal a mind that was often as perceptive as those of her famous brothers. With a healthier constitution and greater encouragement from her family, Strouse makes it clear that Alice's life might have been far more productive...