Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women will get their first chance to view a Harvard Stadium football game from the 50 yard line on October 2, when the Crimson meets Columbia. Previously, Harvard men who wanted to bring dates had to turn in their single tickets in the cheering sections (sections 33 and 34) for...
Even to such an experienced college man as Macintosh, the figure was shocking. Most of the students, Macintosh found, dropped out because of academic failure; and most of those who fell by the wayside did so during the freshman year.
Haverford College gave a disturbing answer. He had just completed a survey, Behind the Academic Curtain,* of the 655 liberal-arts colleges throughout the U.S. His findings: of the thousands of students who enter college each year, more than half drop out before graduation.
Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen is a bald, mild-mannered little bachelor who thinks the job of U.S. intellectuals is to "rediscover and rearticulate" the need for Socialism. He spent the last six months of 1947 lecturing on U.S. literature in Salzburg and Prague and writing a book "about some...
Sudden Sweat in Boston. Seldom has the gullibility and wishful thinking of pinkish academic intellectuals been so perfectly exposed as in this little book. The months Matthiessen spent in Prague were months when the Czech Communists were openly preparing for their seizure of power. Yet Matthiessen derided the idea that...