Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to a "thoroughly alive" course offering, New College will embody another curricular innovation: a month-long midwinter term, when the whole college will join with visiting teachers to study two courses "providing a common intellectual experience." One of these conference-courses will deal with a subject "of central importance in Western culture," the other with a non-Western topic, the subjects changing each year over a four year span. Unfortunately, such a midwinter term could easily become an aimless interlude, devoid of excitment. But, if carefully planned, it could also turn into one of the great attractions...
Joseph asserted that architects studying the problem feel that Lehman could be converted into an ideal center. There would be space for a dining room, bunk quarters, a large library, a recreation room, and common rooms, he pointed...
...only common opponents of both Brandeis and the Crimson are Boston College and Tufts. Both squads lost to the Eagles by 14 points, but whereas Brandeis downed Tufts. 72 to 68, the Crimson won, 60 to 54. Judging then by comparative scores--a consistently inaccurate method anyway--the two teams are so evenly matched that any prediction on this basis would be invalid...
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, will deliver the fourth lecture in the Harvard Conference on Careers, tonight at 8 p.m., in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. His topic will be "Living and Making a Living...
There is an occasional small masterpiece like Mihail Prishvin's His First Point, a wonderfully funny dog story, but most of the tales have the upbeat endings and moral preachments common to slick magazine fiction in the U.S. At their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein...