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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the limits created by apathy and demands for freedom, the Council has done well: It began a series of panel discussions to let students question Administration officers on important policy decisions which are often made without reference to undergraduate opinion. The Council started the Harvard-Columbia Conference on Education which brought delegates from comparable colleges together to discuss common problems. The NSA's failure to provide this kind of program was a major reason for last fall's withdrawal. In both cases the Council filled long-neglected needs with programs which seem to have good futures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Council | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist indirectly and sometimes counter to their own intentions. But besides a hint that invoking a time-spirit becomes almost a necessity for the cultural historian, Bourne neglects a chance to discuss more thoroughly the validity of the Zeitgeist as a unifying historical construct...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

Said the Frankfurter Allgemeine: "A great number of our schoolteachers seem to lack courage to discuss our ugly past with their students." Asked the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "Can we afford to raise a generation of young people who know nothing about Hitler except that he had a funny little mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Forgotten Horror | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Expansion is a dirty word. The Administration would rather use such euphemisms as "natural growth," and "normal expansion of facilities," or, more frequently, not discuss the subject at all. Despite attempts to becloud the issue, however, it is quite clear that the College is committed to a policy of substantial expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussion Please | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

...Council members could attend. The president, who has been attempting all term to promote greater House Committee interest in Council matters, indicated that his colleagues' disapproval was "a big mistake." He added, however, that he would urge the House committees to shift their meeting times so that they could discuss the Council's agenda...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Council Endorses Rise In Health Service Fee | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

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