Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proper Bostonians comprise a small group of a few hundred "first families," who have made Boston thought of in terms of the little poem that ends, "And the Cabots speak only to God." The book, by a member of one of the families, only occasionally attempts to bring sociological insight to the effects or the mores of the proper Bostonians, but it does give a graceful account that is filled with anecdotes and color...
...ramifications and connotations of "liberal education" are so profuse that the term itself needs redefinition. When teachers colleges, technical colleges, large state colleges all issue B.A. 's, what is the common denominator of a liberal education? In this welter of educational institutions, what is the proper role of a college such as Harvard...
Durant, who had earlier made clear his desire to "play ball with the nation" on meatless Tuesdays and eggless-poultry-less Thursdays told the Council members that this program was already being followed with proper substitutions...
...PROPER BOSTONIANS (381 pp.)- Cleveland Amory-Dutton...
...Proper Bostonians, young (30) Cleveland Amory, a Social Registerite himself, has set out to examine his peers. The book is the first of a series which Button will publish about U.S. society (others to come: New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Santa Fe). Culled largely from First Family writings and conversations with Beacon Hill contemporaries, Amory's smoothly phrased findings are not likely to ruffle the poise of the Cabots and the Lowells. Still, many a less proper Bostonian will find much here to delight him. Says Amory: "Besides not being Mayflower-descended, Boston's First Families of today...