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...expression, the Administration assumes an often stifling concern for the welfare and conduct of Penn students. It is highly unlikely that students at any other Ivy League institution received a letter this summer from the president stating, "...it has been my custom to write a letter calling attention to certain qualities which we feel the University may properly expect of its students. Foremost among these are honesty, self-reliance, a high standard of personal conduct, and a concern for the name of the University in its relationship with the community in which it is situated ... we expect our students...
Peters calls Penn, with its conformists and non-conformists, fraternity members and dormitory inhabitants, and foreign and domestic students, "the most complex of the Ivy schools." But certain aspects of the administration's wide-eyed reaction to the off-the-beaten-path undergraduates suggests Penn is not so catholic as it might seem. Dean Pitt, arguing the case for diversity, used for an example, "Rick Cuthbert, our hurdles record-holder. He's a fraternity member, but he lives in a dorm because he wants to meet all sorts of interesting people. He has just met a Chinese...
...decision to exempt certain freshman seminar students from General Education is a healthy experiment. In a step towards decentralizing instruction in freshman composition, approximately two thirds of the 180 students enrolled in seminars are fulfilling their composition requirement through their seminar writing...
...Russian Revolution. Almost 50 people--from second year graduate students to senior faculty members--crowded into a seminar room at 16 Dunster Street built for 20. The occasion for Deutscher's visit illustrates the center's important position in its field. Deutscher came to the United States to study certain Soviet archival documents available only at Widener. The "richness of Widener's collection," according to Shulman, is one of the keys to the Center's pre-eminence...
...Senturia has long-range doubts about his continued work in music at the University. "I am a little cautious of the academic world in certain respects, and I am not convinced this is the best place for a performing musician." Contemporary composers should come to the University to play and speak with undergraduates "or else the entire musical community cannot flourish," Senturia recommends. Music at Harvard for him thus does not stop with the HRO; it is a living, all-important concern which extends far beyond his three rehearsals per week and his teaching in Music 253, formerly taught...