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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the student seminars will be composed of men and women working together should be helpful: though one can generalize too far, providing that a style of life has been established which respects the process of sharing intellectual experience, the two sexes bring out the best in each other intellectually...
Broad knowledge will not be pre-digested for New College students; it will come as a natural consequence of exploration, of "getting around" in their subjects. Methods are best introduced, not in the abstract, but in action. The fall freshman seminar will teach methodology by exploring limited subjects, each teacher deciding on a subject and its limits with a view to best showing a group of about thirteen students how he works, and how they can work, in using his discipline...
...Harvard, probably the best example of this approach on an elementary level is Humanities 6, which limits its reading list, but pays careful attention to each work. New College will not hurl Great Ideas at its students, but will let them dig around in the material out of which great ideas emerge...
...times the capacity of politicians for reassuring talk and disturbing action reaches astounding proportions. Six years ago, Dwight Eisenhower took office amid promises of bringing the "best brains in the country" into his Administration. The sources of these paragons turned out to be Wall Street and the corporation boardrooms, and their performance in office has by and large proven uninspired...
After Dave Skeels had lost to the Gymnasts' Bob Campana, 3-0, in the opening 123-lb. match, the visitors' Art Moses, one of the best 130-pounders in the East, swarmed all over the varsity's Carl Kludt, nearly pinning him at least three times, for a 12-0 decision. Watkins then put the Crimson in the scoring column with an easy 5-0 victory over Jerry Cook...