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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...environment of the individual in Harvard College. Previous editorials have undertaken only the preliminary examination. They have not been concerned with diagnosis or remedies. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations. In order to make clear the context within which both conclusions and recommendations are to be understood, "Looking Backward" will summarize the content of the previous editorials...
...when the whole setup is shaken down a bit, we can re-examine class lists and separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases." A solution such as this might lead to one obvious trouble, which Dean Buck mentioned in another context--that teachers would have to give a course twice under that arrangement, whereas the joint system removes that old and formerly prevalent evil...
...leaf taken from the book of Christianity-a leaf torn out and misread. Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we have obviously ... been living on spiritual capital, I mean clinging to Christian practice without possessing the Christian belief...
...remarks. The whole of the debate was also revealing, and largely overlooked by the daily press. That was why we gave more cable space to this supplementary coverage than to Bevin himself. Trends that had been building up for months surfaced in this debate; to report Bevin in context we had to report those trends...
...such artists as Luini, the birth of Christ was not merely a historical event to be celebrated in its proper season, but .an ever-present reality-as immediate as the birth of one's own son-and so he saw nothing strange in taking it from its temporal context and creating a contemporary Italian Bethlehem. The result was sometimes as stilted-looking as an amateur theatrical, but its wholly unsentimental sweetness more than compensated for that. The sweetness in Luini's pictures could not be mixed on a palette or applied with a brush; it was an inner...