Word: parentes
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...MODERN PARENT-Greenberg...
...world to maintain itself since the advent of the talking movie. The coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...
...model of the League of Nations in which students, acting as representatives of the various countries, convene to argue and debate. This replica has no power save that of increased knowledge, its dictums settle little beyond friendly controversies, but its activity fills as definite a need as its parent overseas. The generation which fought in 1917 will not live to fight again, but their children may and it is important that they school themselves so they may not. Th League which meets in Wellesley this year should do as much in its limited way for war prevention as the League...
...school has a choice of becoming a tutoring institution pure and simple, or of disposing of the inadequate students, or of advising the parent of his son's deficiencies. Most academics unfortunately adopt the first two courses open to them for their reputation depends largely on the success of their produce at the universities. There are objections to these methods. The first stultifies original thinking and turns out boys cast in a conventional college board mould: the second takes no account of the boys who are weeded out which is grossly unfair and unnecessary...
...months Margaret Mead and her husband lived among the Manus, learnt their language, their tabus, took photographs, asked questions, saw as much as they were allowed. Anthropologist Mead's conclusion is that among the Manus only the children have a really good time. Children do exactly as they please; parent's may plead, they never discipline. But with marriage a hard life begins. The married couple have never seen each other till their wedding, rarely like each other. They have no house of their own, must work hard to pay back the marriage expenses. Divorce or separation is frequent...