Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This brief outline is brutally unfair--you must read the book to appreciate fully the tremendous breadth of Professor Sorokin's knowledge--but it does allow of at least one equally sketchy criticism of the method of analysis; Sorokin has started out with the hunch that there are three cultural compartments and then amassed evidence to back the hunch. But it is possible to start out with the different theory of a linear, progressive history of Western civilization and amass evidence to prove it, or to take a theory of parallel lines of development. Sorokin's evidence to prove...
...Woodworth visit brought nothing but trouble to Harvard and to the Lampoon. It wasn't her fault. She did what she was told. Kambers dragged her everywhere, condescending to allow her to attend the dance for all of fifteen minutes, just time for the newsreel cameras, undoubtedly run by her home studio, to whirr. As a crowning disgrace. Kambers and the Boston newshounds got her to pause for a luscious bit of cheesecake in the lap of the John Harvard statue. When Marjorie departed from Boston the morning after, the Lampoon knew it was through with Hollywood. The visit hurt...
...patriotic loyalty of the Harvard Faculty is unquestionable. But their devotion to the teaching profession does not allow such a bold statement. They scurry through the Yard armed with bulky briefcases filled no longer with weighty academic tracts, but rather with pajamas and toothbrush for an overnight stay in Washington. The national emergency does make it possible for every capable man to find a job to do, but the intellectual standards of Harvard should not be impaired by the emergency. Men who devote only half, and sometimes even less of their time to teaching, are detrimental to these standards...
Entering its third year, the delivery service from the Eliot House Grill to students' rooms will start allow tonight...
Women share a part in the numerous programs of American Defense, and committee headed by Mrs. Arthur M. Schlesinger is cooperating now with the Houses and Phillips Brooks House in attempting to put through a program which will allow draftees to visit students over the weekend...