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...physics, with some mathematics a very handy adjunct, the field is not just a pleasant four-year exposure to a liberal education in the sciences. The vast majority of men in the department, most of them pre-medical students, are playing for keeps, since medical schools are notoriously grade-conscious...
...quite as bad in the South. There, many manufacturers, notably worsted weavers, were rolling along on backlogs that would carry them well into fall. Nevertheless, there were cutbacks there, too, in low-grade products...
Continuing the theme of his annual report to the Board of Overseers, in which he cited a need for government-sponsored two-year colleges, President Conant labeled the present situation "truly shocking" as he turned his attention to the lack of funds for the nation's grade and high schools...
...elementary school child in five was "seriously maladjusted"; in six years 1,168 cases of delinquency had come up in court. In the lower grades, rural moppets had better-than-average mental health; but by the time they reached the sixth grade, their neuroses were showing...
...curriculum was too tough for many of the boys & girls, whose tested I.Q. averaged only 100. (The local gag was that anybody who couldn't make the grade in school could always get a job at the Los Alamos labs that paid more than teacher got.) And as Los Alamos expanded, more & more schoolkids were the children of maintenance men, carpenters, shopkeepers and other nonscientists, who wanted more vocational courses and a more "progressive" education...