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...many questions after each lecture that the morning classes inevitably continued into the afternoon. The campus swimming pool and tennis courts were ignored. They vetoed a theater party in favor of a lecture on astronomy, refused a final social afternoon with their wives for three hours of additional classwork. Though the evening lectures were supposed to end at 9, most adjourned after...
...morning, instead of reporting to the office, the students were plunged into a world of philosophy, literature, history and art. They took courses in logic, ethics, esthetics, gulped down big doses of music, economics, architecture, studied some of the major concepts in the social and natural sciences. Though their classwork was done mostly in seminars, they heard lectures by such scholars as Anthropologist Carleton Coon, City Planner Lewis Mumford, Yale's Henri Peyre (who spoke on Rousseau's Confessions), Brandeis University's Ludwig Lewisohn (Faust), Colby's President Julius Seelye Bixler ("Empirical Calculation of Consequences...
...classwork at boarding schools, he said, is lighter than in a public school, but teachers are also called on to take charge of dorms, coach sports, and run extra-curricular activities. "Our task is different from a day-school," Saltonstall added. "We have a big chance to share in the life of the kids, to extend them and experiment with teaching techniques...
...unwilling to "seek out the teacher," the situation is much more favorable in the University's extracurricular activities. During the fall, men in the Yard will be asked to join groups interested in everything from Chinese idols to Bulgarian chess. Individuality is an after-hours proposition, especially since classwork on the mass production level leaves little room for the personal slant. Mr. '50 will fiind in a College of 5500 men a least a handful who feel the same way about the Russians, or like back-handed Cribbage. It is in this group that he may lose his serial-number...
...class. They are given a starting bonus of one credit in physical education (because they've had G.I. exercise) and one-half unit in social science for having gone through Army or Navy indoctrination courses. The 39 now enrolled (ranks: private through captain) cram 30 hours of classwork and 30 hours of homework into each week, which will allow them to complete a year's schooling in twelve weeks...