Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other factor that has retarded this liberalization of undergraduate studies is the rather unamenable attitude of many of the departments themselves. Perhaps the departments are a little suspicious of something new, which may be understandable, or perhaps they feel they are being undercut by the partial avoidance of the course system, which is understandable, but still deplorable. Courses are not only organized into departments for the good of the students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that will educate certain students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that...
Since the introduction of specific material made general examinations very similar to final course examinations, several professors feel the generals no longer have any useful function...
...major complaint is that the tutorial bibliography, a list of books for which undergraduates are held responsible on general examinations, has become too rigid a guide for students. Many members of the Department feel that students only cover the necessary sections of the bibliography, and never develop special interests, either independently or in tutorial...
...Protestants as 'unAmerican pressure groups,' or as symbols of the intolerance of Catholics. [But the Legion addresses] its directives only to Catholics. Protestants are just as concerned as Catholics are to protect their youngsters from suggestive and defiling influences. The trouble is that some Protestants seem to feel themselves almost obliged to patronize the movie which the Catholics condemned-just because the Catholics condemned...
...Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...