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...post-World War II years, in fact, the American birth rate has always been on the way down, an anomaly explained by the heroic childbearing habits of the founding mothers, who averaged 8.3 children each. The '40s and the '50s, according to the demographers, were simply an upward jiggle on the downward line...
...students used to be subdivided variously into gentlemen who were born to go to college, apprentices who thrived on a land-grant opportunity to struggle upward, Big Men on Campus who scorned study but succeeded by using college to form useful, lifelong friends. What is distinctive about American students today, says Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists." They are the "academically committed young men and women, who value technological, intellectual and professional competence above popularity, ambition or grace." The professionalist is not a status...
...once showed a brief spark but isn't very interested now," David J. Swanger, executive director of the project and teaching fellow in education, said yesterday. Students will be recommended next month by school teachers and a citizens' group from the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, then selected by the "Upward Bound" staff...
They must now work with the "Upward Bound" staff to develop the "core curriculum" of reading skills, mathematics and social studies that they will begin to teach during the summer...
More undergraduates may be recruited for the program during the school year, possibly by Phillips Brook House. The possibility of expanding "Challenge," the PBH tutorial program for junior high students, and linking it to "Upward Bound" is now being studied...