Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps significant that, during the first week after fall registration, the Center is booked up for every night--Monday through Thursday--for the entire year. The Center's daytime hours are 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday...
There seem to be two kinds of people who visit the Modern Language Center--the student who is interested in informal activities relating to the study and appreciation of a certain language and culture; and the scholar who comes to hear another scholar give a learned dissertation on, say, some lost Diderot manuscripts that he has recently recovered. The Center is ready to accommodate both types...
...Modern Language Center is its informal atmosphere, and this is what Professor Berrien has been striving to maintain since 1946. His colleagues have often questioned him about turning some of the rooms into classrooms (as it is now, no classes are held at the Center; groups are brought over from time to time to use the facilities) but this would destroy the informality. By the same taken, any "expansion" of the present setup would defeat the purpose of the Center...
Does Professor Berrien have any long range plans for his project? Naturally he is limited to some extent by the lack of funds; but the Modern Language Center was conceived as a student activities center for one small segment of the University. The clubs that hold their meetings there now formerly met in the Houses, which meant a constant moving around. Berrien calls Phillips Brooks House "too somber." The Center is bound to remain just that so long as Berrian, an interesting and interested man, is in charge. He wants nothing big. His crying need at the moment is merely...
Though Wallach repeated his challenge to debate, he announced he would now also initiate an investigation into why the G.I. Bill should be authorized for St. Benedict's Center. He claimed that what goes on there "is systematized bigotry and in abuse of the 'free market of ideas' principle of Harvard University sad is not 'education' within the meaning of the Congressional...