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...field, each man chooses a special country or period of study, and bases his courses on his choice. The favorite is the Modern Period in two European countries plus America. Then the concentrator leans either to the side of History or Literature, and is ready to begin an arduous three years of intellectual fun. By the time he has taken his qualifying exams, and is ensconced in Senior Tutorial for credit, the honors candidate has nothing to worry about but a March 1st thesis deadline...
Identity of Views. For his twelve days in the U.S., Adenauer had an arduous diplomatic, social and tourist schedule (from the capital he flew to San Francisco, thence to Chicago). He dined with old friends, e.g., Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and new acquaintances, e.g., John D. Rockefeller Jr., 79 (of whom Adenauer said: "I really do not understand why he is still called Junior"). He was touched by his visit to Arlington Cemetery, where a U.S. Army band played The Star Spangled Banner and the Deutschlandlied (purged version of Deutschland Uber Alles...
Finally, such as move would add on more required course, further restricting the undergraduate's leeway in choosing his own educational path. It would be especially arduous on those who had to take a required course in Ouvrez la fenetre because they had not taken enough French in high school. The idea expressed in the CRIMSON's editorial that the College could force schools to give three years of modern languages by denying entrance to students not so prepared it illusory, as all the Deans in Harvard College will attest. such a unilateral rule would only deprive Harvard of desirable...
...concerns education, and education only. The discharge of responsibilities, large or small, easy or arduous, have a way of maturing students who otherwise might passively sit over their books too long. There is no better way to learn self-reliance of mind and will than by using it, and to that end the College encourages its students to undertake such duties as running an organization involves. That the various film groups seem incapable of planning ahead, that they cannot cooperate with each other, that in fact they depend excessively on their elders to make their decisions, is a very forceful...
...addition, his zeal in fighting off formula-men, a traditional function of Harvard presidents, has had much to do with the spirit of inquiry that abounds at Harvard. This is a more arduous task than one might imagine, for at present the nation's intellectual brew is filled with unusual amounts of dogma and intolerance...