Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacious office in the basement of Memorial Hall, Boring now works regularly at the desk which used to belong to Hugo Munsterberg, the German psychologist whom James brought to Harvard in 1892. In the files along one wall are one hundred thousand letters from and to psychologists all over the world: "I'm just too lazy to throw them out," Boring says...
...wreathed visitors with orchid leis and every day afforded another sun-drenched romp through a paradise of surf and sand, every night (under a perfect moon) another tropical taste of the revelry of luau. But in only ten years, Waikiki has been transformed into some thing that seems to belong more to southern Florida than it does to the once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that it looks like Coney Island on a Sunday, and hawkers are everywhere ($8 for a twilight cruise plus...
...meet monthly for lunch, prayer, and blunt, secret discussions of how Christian ethics apply to their office lives. Both the Senate and House of Representatives have groups of Congressmen who meet once a week for a prayer breakfast; so has Texas' House of Representatives. The thousands who belong to the cells of the Roman Catholic Christian Family Movement meet weekly for their discussions and Bible study in one another's houses...
Today it would be ridiculous to propose that only the history of science belong in the university. Science is learned not only through reading of past experiments, but by conducting laboratory work as well. It is usually the case that a man actively at work in scientific research is a better teacher and makes a greater contribution to the community than a person who is merely steeped in the knowledge of previous scientists. A chemistry course without labs would be miserably inadequate. In the same way, a historian who is practicing his profession is apt to be more stimulating than...
...study color, design, and the works of other artists, but to do his own work--and to encourage creativity in his students--he needs a studio. If it is accepted that artistic creativity is a proper use for man's intellectual powers, then the artist--and his studio--belong in the university. But is it accepted...