Word: classe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment with great emotion, that a child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first fighting steps and with whom he shared a prison cell...
...field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis' besieging divisions. In mid-1944 he headed the Soviet forces which ignominiously sat outside...
...year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course divisions-the social, physical and biological sciences, and the humanities. Since students differed in ability, Chicago decided that they should be free to attend class or not and to go as fast as they wanted. All they had to do was to pass a set of broad examinations given, not by the teachers, but by a board of examiners. Thereupon, on the basis of achievement rather than "time-serving," Chicago decided they should get their...
...sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books over, too, from Chicago's swank Union League Club to the Detroit House...
...Council activity, which will be investigated by the subcommittees, are: the Council and the University; the Council in freshman affairs; election and membership of the Council; Houses and the Council; relations with semi-public organizations (such as the Salzburg Seminar, National Student Association, Phillips Brooks House, and the Class Committees), public relations of the Council with undergraduates; and Council committees...