Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diverse assortment of upper-level courses on many topics, with little in common but a generally high quality of teaching, perphas the most meaningful bond...
...concept of time as going somewhere. This notion of progress, of the future justifying the present, of a paradise for which today's effort must be directed, this division of ends and means which has created totalitarian ideology, is of Biblical origin. A Moscow Purge has more in common with a Catholic Inquisition to save souls, than a trial of Socrates for disturbing the polis...
...Pollard suggests the difficulty. It has been so long since we have had a Christian culture that 1957 can hardly understand the Christian revelation. When these men talk about life after death, resurrection, judgment, and God, their words sound hollow. There is no reference to a common experience except despair. There are no shared meanings, because such things can only grow in a community in which such concepts are imminent facts...
...there are to be any further changes in the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, administrators at both institutions feel that such changes will come about gradually, and only whenever the two schools reach a "common realization of a common need," as Jordan has expressed...
Every department is guilty of what the Committee of Eight long ago noted as an "internal tendency to conform." Departments all too often recommend for promotion those men who most nearly come up to their rigid motions of their standards. And it is still an all too common practice for an aging professor to pick a fair haired young boy out of GSAS and groom his as his successor...