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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subjection to the academic system. Exams are the most personally humiliating and meaningless situations that the academic system imposes on the individual student. They are also the point in the system where the dichotomy between learning and academic structure becomes most obvious: the very fact that an exam in English is conducted exactly like an exam in Geology is enough to make clear to many students the fact that exams have absolutely nothing to do with intellectual concerns. There can be no explanation of why students are required to scribble frantic little essays on vast and intricate subjects except...
There will be a meeting of all juniors concentrating in English to discuss the timing of junior generals and the election of a junior committee at 3 p.m. today in the Quincy...
...summer spots-the island of Ischia near Naples, for instance, and the civilized hills of Austria. But in Letters from Iceland, the two precocious patriarchs of an Oxford poetic school spoke with the same youthful, irreverent voice. The book is probably the only successful verse partnership since the old English firm of Beaumont & Fletcher closed shop. It is, moreover, an object lesson for all dull dogs who could find nothing more exciting in a place like Iceland than watching the glaciers whiz...
...observations: the rapid calculation that the increase in black enrollment between 1964 and the present academic year could be comfortably accommodated in one standard English coach; and the suspicion that writers well-informed on the situation at American universities who contribute to the Times could be comfortably accommodated in one standard English mini-cab. Ian Martin GSAS
Neil L. Rudenstine, dean of students at Princeton University and former assistant professor of English at Harvard was knocked down in a scuffle during an SDS demonstration at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton Wednesday...