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According to this view poverty is not the cause of crime but simply determines its nature. Neither does Dr. Sutherland agree with Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton that crime has a genetic basis. He believes that crime, whether upper-class or lower-class, is learned by association with other malefactors already in the field...
...Children sleep too much-chiefly because their parents want them out of the way. "The patience, niceness and indeed submissiveness of upper-class mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
...prefer," says Sassoon, at 52, "to remember my own gladness and good luck, and to forget, whenever I can, those moods and minor events which made me low-spirited and unresponsive." His happy memories are really a tribute to the optimistic spirit of upper-class Englishmen's pre-War world. That spirit Siegfried Sassoon conveys exactly. Defending it, The Old Century is his testament that the worst that can happen in peace is idyllic compared to the best that can happen...
Twenty-three men from 14 far-flung states who entered College last year on National Scholarships and attained honors standing, have had their grants renewed for the three upper-class years, it was announced yesterday...
Although all stipends are adjusted to individual needs, the maximum which can be received in upper-class years is $200 greater than that which can be granted Freshmen, owing to the proportionally higher cost of living in the Houses. Twenty-four men in the Junior and Senior classes are now wholly or partially supported by the National Scholarship fund...