Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approach the problem is to ask: how far can the undergraduate afford to pay for deconversion? Obviously, if each student gets his own study bedroom, he will have to pay for it, and this means higher rents. Former Dean Leighton feels that, when the Houses begin deconverting this Fall, the demand for the more expensive "uncrowded" suites will be limited. "When the student no longer casts his dollar vote for deconversion," he observes, "then I am for expansion...
This sort of inquiry would probably be squelched rather quickly at Harvard, and it is likely that investigators would be too polite to ask such questions here, preferring to draw their own conclusions. However, in the state colleges and small liberal arts colleges this form of investigation will increase if not stopped, and the University of California resolution has already been denounced as "subversive." It asks that faculty members refuse to reveal "belief, attitudes, activities, and associations of a student regarding religion, politics, and public affairs in general...
Foster replied, "I think it is within the right of the Class to ask for a new election even if the first one was honest." The majority, in disagreeing with this position, apparently consider the matter closed. Earlier in the day Dean Watson declined to accept the petition, commenting that he could take no action...
Throughout the country "Warren House" has become synonymous with the department itself. Those who "write to Warren House" do so sometimes to ask for faculty appointments or for special reading lists, but also for purposes of a less professional nature. There have been questions about cross-word puzzles, or about how to win at scrabble. A Novia Scotia farmer once sent his poems to be "criticized." The piece-de-resistance is probably a letter from a high school teacher asking for a list of the "twenty best books, with reasons...
...Warren mystique reaches far and wide. At this point even book salesmen ask to see the trap-door and the room where Kittredge, Lowes and Bliss Perry once examined. Visiting chairmen of other English departments return to see the house which gave birth to their scholarly careers. Everyone agrees that something intangible contributes to making Warren House the indispensable institution it has become. Perhaps one professor best summed it up in quoting Santayana's description of Concord: "External humility and inward pride." ir?-, iohkRCcotkle