Word: day
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students attend class six hours each day, including Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 P.M. For the most part, one man, either LeFevre or a guest lecturer, talks uninterruptedly; some time there are discussions among the class. The most common form of homework, besides the reading from three short textbooks, is a daily 200-word paper, on such assignments as "Assume you are a private contractor. Tell how you could build better highways than any government could...
...valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism Lichtenberg retained a wry skepticism quite uncharacteristic of his day...
...comedy there is room for gravity and beauty. Juniper holds a telling debate with Pepe about the nature of religion that would do some theologians proud. And when Juniper says, in reply to the General's scornful question, "What miracles have you seen?" that he has "seen the bright day follow the darkest night... I have seen individual acts of courage that redeemed the cowardice of nations." the entire audience is hushed...
Then the unexpected happened. One day late in 1928, Edward S.Harkness, Yale '97, walked into Lowell's office and offered him $3 million to build an "Honors College," with a resident master and tutors, for members of the three upper classes. Because Yale had spurned Harkness's offer, Harvard became the fortunate recipient...
...Wouk (3) 3. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 5. For 2? Plain, Golden (5) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. The Armada, Mattingly (6) 8. Groucho and Me, Marx (8) 9. Candidates 1960, Sevareid 10. The Longest Day, Ryan...