Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than a library, the Center is envisioned by its planners as a focal point for learning on many levels. By providing 20 faculty offices, it will be the means of finally drawing a sizable group of faculty to the 'Cliffe. These offices will probably be given to younger faculty who are connected in some way--perhaps as tutors or advisers--with Radcliffe. Predicting the effects of this provision, Mrs. Bunting observes: "You would never expect to walk into the library now and stop to talk with a faculty member; but in the new Center, it will be a common...
Planned as the focal point of the Quad, rather than to fit in with the other buildings, the Study Center's brilliant, white surface of limestone panels and concrete will be broken by the shadows of its recessed windows. "If we had wanted the building to fit in," comments Mrs. Bunting, "we would have made it of red brick, but we didn't want the new Center to look like a dormitory...
...translation of "intellectual capacities well employed" into "scholarship" measured largely by grades is the focal point of Mr. Pusey's suggestions and of faculty compliants. Yet I suspect they are dissatisfied for directly opposite reasons...
...present, the University relies on three deans to keep informed about the Federal programs, but Pusey said Wednesday he felt "we have to have a focal point for gathering and disseminating information...
...Episcopalians at Harvard parallels that of the Congregationalists and Presbyterians. Like the Congregational Presbyterian Student Fellowship, the Episcopal student organization, the Canterbury Club, has simply withered away from disuse. Now Sunday discussion groups at the home of the Episcopal chaplain, Rev. William J. Schneider, serve as the only for focal point for organization. "A club tends to be restrictive," says Schnider. "It isn't that people couldn't come, but it does appear like a closed thing...