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Word: arens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place together, students who are intelligent and curious and interested enough to profit from Harvard, who are intelligent without necessarily being 'intellectuals' but whose distinction is primarily other--goodness or loyalty or energy or perceptivity or a passionate concern of some sort. We might even have a few who aren't particularly distinguished in anyways, who aren't brilliant leaders, who are just plain, ordinary decent, uncomplicated human being like so many faculty sons and Harvard sons, to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Dean Bender's Valedictory Message | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

Finally, Bender made a plea for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent uncomplicated human beings ... to provide a human scale in this community of superman...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Bender's Final Report on Admissions Warns Against 'Elitism,' Increasing Cost of College | 9/30/1961 | See Source »

...lecturer's critical responses to "The Wasteland" before you have read the poem, before you have your own responses to measure his against? And of what satisfaction to the teacher is addressing passive spectators? Reuben Brower, professor of English, complains: "I can't stand lecturing about things people aren't engaged...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Student Involvement in Course Work Hurt by Lack of Dialogue With Teachers | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...boys aren't made to do something three times a week in their first year," he asserted, "they will get out of the habit" and will not participate in House athletics later...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: College to Remain Firm About PT Requirement | 9/27/1961 | See Source »

...particularly bulky and bulbous. But dealers whose 1961 wares had been hot sellers, notably those handling the Falcon and the Mercury Comet, were openly relieved that their cars had retained the same basic design. Said Oldsmobile Dealer Harry Healer of Watertown, Mass.: "The beauty of it is that they aren't making cars obsolete in a year any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cadillac Lights the Way | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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