Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last three years, there has been a strong rebirth of interest in full-year educational systems. A public school have each undertaken a major study. Although the recommendations were strikingly different, the findings had a great deal in common...
Already approved by the Corporation, the new building will rise as high as necessary, and extend from what is now Peabody House toward Lawrence Hall. The estimated 75,000 square feet will house classrooms, a library, administrative offices, common rooms, and faculty a new building...
Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, and Carle T. Tucker, Director of Dining Halls, will be among those on a panel in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...because they impose restraints on the free exercise of the mind; they may in fact not impose such restraints, and they may well not even be appropriate devices for the imposition of such restraints on any occasion. Rather, what is bad is the existence of a belief among common men that intellectuals cannot be trusted as citizens. The oaths and affidavits serve, it seems, as reprimands. And to those who judge the reprimands wrongly directed they have also seemed insults, as the language of the protests ("offensive," "odious") indicates...
...puts him above the law, nor indeed above local responsibilities. While the life of the mind requires no intrusion from without, the intellectual still is in his private life and in the actual exercise of his profession an individual man; and it is nothing but an affront to good common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat this defect...