Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will have a strong line. Three returning lettermen at end--Captain Pete Hart, Bob Boyda, and Dave Hudepohl--and a tough guard squad led by senior letterman Bill Swinford give the squad its greatest support, along with veterans Darwin Wile and Mike Sheridan at tackle. Offensive and defensive specialists at center are Tony Watters and Dave Nyhan, who will probably alternate in two-platoon fashion...
...exuberantly extracurricular Alice Schaeffer, 21, is an English major from Evanston, who moved the dean of students to burble that she is "the veritable Renaissance woman of unending versatility." A top scholar, Alice won such praise by tireless toil for the university theater, the annual Blackfriars shows, the Darwin show, the Billy Barnes Revue, the interdormitory council and the Festival of the Arts. This summer she has a job in a student revue at Chicago's Sherry Hotel; next fall she heads for Stanford and a master's degree. Her dream: to be a dean of students...
...Darwin's discovery of evolution, Freud's of the unconscious, and the manipulation of conditioned reflexes by social and psychological "engineering," he believes, have all tended to reduce man to the status of object rather than subject. "Yet the most pertinent question-who controls psychological conditioning and social engineering-has not been answered except by the horrifying shadow of Big Brother in Orwell's 1984. This question is the decisive one. It shows that there is at least one point in which subjectivity cannot be annihilated: namely in those who annihilate. Science cannot reduce into mere objects...
...Tackle Darwin Wile said that many players like himself crave for spring workouts of one sort or another -- "We work out anyway. It might as well be on football." Many players agreed that if the league is to be on a par with other conferences, spring football must be reinstated. Ivy football was called "out-rate," "sloppy...
Pointing out that a cycle in psychology is reversing the imbalance caused by the ideas of such men as Freud and Darwin about the uncertainty of learning. "A certain pragmatism has prevailed. We are now concerning ourselves." Bruner said, "not so much with ultimate realities, but with the regularity of experience...