Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiefly remembered by Harvard historians as marking a break-down of the conception of the Class as a meaningful social unit. The more cynical may think that the Class never was a meaningful social unit, but merely an Administrative device to elicit alumni loyalty and contributions. Before the advent of the Houses, however, in the days when Seniors lived together in the Yard, there is good reason to believe that the Class did play an important part in the life and memories of the Harvardman...
...little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling...
...Dean Monro are the only two members of the Committee who are not professors, and thus the committee will probably be concerned with academic aspects of admissions policy to a very considerable degree. This part of the admissions problem has become increasingly prominent in recent years with the advent of the advanced standing program and was emphasized by the CEP sub-committee on the Teaching of Natural Sciences in its recently approved report...
...major problems which underlay the recently concluded dispute over the Senior Class Marshal election is one that deserves considerable thought during the coming months. Since the advent of the House system in the early 1930's, College-wide elections have become increasingly anachronistic. With Harvard broken down into small, 400-man compartments it is very difficult to attach much more significance to a class election than one would to a contest to see which undergraduate has managed to get his name before the most students during his four years at Harvard...
...illustrate typical Soviet humor, he related a story popular in Russia this summer. Khrushchev, he said, was marking a tour of Soviet farms and hired a peasant to sit on top of Moscow towers to watch for the advent of true Communism which would replace the present "preliminary, benevolent" Soviet state...