Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOUSE COURSES have been the Harvard equivalent of motherhood and apple pie. Everyone knows that hordes of students apply to get into them and that tutors teach them with religious enthusiasm. And to those who complain that the lecture system is impersonal and often ineffective, administrators can hold up house courses as evidence that Harvard is, after all, a progressive institution academically...
There is no debate over the popularity of house courses with students. But at least for some members of the Committee on General Education, the enthusiasm of students being taught is not an adequate measure of the success of an academic innovation. House courses "are a policy issue regardless of whether students like them," Wilcox says, and in at least five ways, they have been accused of being bad academic policy...
...G.S.T. was Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's answer to Czecho slovakia, as speakers at last week's rally in East Berlin made plain. The contagious enthusiasm of the young Czechoslovaks for liberalization sent a chill down Ulbricht's spine. His response was direct: to bring his own teen-agers out of the coffee shops in what amounts to a junior branch of the Volksarmee. G.S.T. provided a handy vehicle for just that. Linked with the party since its founding in 1952, it was taken over by the Defense Ministry in 1956. It remained little more than...
...Harvard freshman I was an innocent rationalist and Wilsonian Democrat. Even while I was an undergraduate, and with the generous enthusiasm of my tutor Harold Laski to fortify me, the influence of the late Irving Babbitt began to undermine the foundations of that belief...
...Vice President is counting on Nixon to commit a damaging blunder at some point during the fall, or at least to campaign so timidly, in the hope of avoiding errors, that he will fail to generate sufficient enthusiasm to win. Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...