Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those of us who can look back sincerely and candidly can accept the fact that we were wrong. We can see that men in power may not be as educated sophisticated, or steeped in political theory. But they may have facts, information, and background that we don't have. They have advisors whose life work it has been to know other countries and their rulers, and to assay and understand their intentions beter then...
...better or for worse, the College today is committed to an admissions policy which puts heavy stress on such non-objective factors as personality, initiative, intellectual and extracurricular interests, and geographic or family background. The second article in this series will describe these criteria in more detail, and explain how the College goes about getting students who meet them...
Although the Deans have ensured that Eliot has approximately the same proportion of public and private school boys as the other houses, the House has attracted boys whose whose temperaments and tastes are usually associated with a private school background. Its members tend to take life less seriously than those in other houses and, although anxious to thrust ahead, do not like to express this anxiety too openly. They form a congenial, closely knit group and participate faithfully in house activities--this year Eliot is a leading contender for the Strauss trophy that goes to the over-all leader...
Those of us who under the present system enjoyed taking a course as completely out of our ordinary field of interest as Soc. Sci. 8 or who were grateful for the opportunity of acquiring some background in world history with the aid of Soc. Sci. 1 would regret the denial of this alternative to others. Dorothy Balogh '64, Sondra Gamow...
...major finding of the survey was that everyone, regardless of educational or religious background, considers TV a source of entertainment. Everyone expressed the desire for more informational and educational shows, but at the same time did not want to sacrifice entertainment. Few people now use the set as a deliberate source of information, aside from news and weather reports: as a public service, documentary medium television is a failure. An independent check on the viewing habits of individuals who strongly expressed desire for more information on TV showed that these people, when presented with the choice of entertainment or information...