Word: core
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...Gropius architecture and city planning are part and parcel of the same problem: bettering the physical environment and thus the well-being of Man. This is his point of departure from Wright, for whom he has the greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined...
Emphasizing the flexibility of the commission system that will be the back-bone of the NSO. Clifton F. Wharton '47, a delegate to the Chicago Convention and now secretary of the National Continuations Committee, said that students expect a "hard core of profitable activities" to be the foundation of any permanent organization. "No amount of lofty phrases can do the job," he said...
...core of the problem is manpower. Courses cannot be given without teachers, and most members of the faculty quite naturally prefer to restrict their teaching to the fall and spring terms and their vacationing to the sticky summer. Nonetheless, in the face of the demand for a summer term, some men, such as Professor Hooton, have seen their way clear to teaching three terms in a row: a few more Faculty Richards could have made the difference between the current sluggish summer program and a fully satisfactory...
...just this type of activity that was the core of the original House Plan. Students were to find in their House closer contact both with each other and with members of the Faculty, thereby adding another dimension to the lecture system of education. Tutorial lay at the heart of the plan, and it is the tutorial system's current dehydrated state that has caused the loss of much of the value of the Houses. The method by which students will choose their House reflects this state: in the thirties interviews with staff members of both first and second choices were...
...this fact, which is directly related to the increased competition inevitable in a time when more college graduates are being turned loose on American employers than ever before, the Office of Student Placement has declared that "there is no employment office as such at Harvard. Here is the core of the problem: the emphasis is placed not on helping to find specific jobs for students, not on making actual contacts between students and possible employers, but on the general principle of showing a student how to go about the business himself. In a liberal arts college, this sort of work...