Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line, between intellectual error and "surrender of intellectual integrity," canonization proceedings may be in order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity and student naivete (not to be confined with "integrity...
...President first announced this general policy along with 19 other members of the Educational Policies Commission in a report made public on June...
With the change in the Radcliffe position there has come a new attitude toward the Annex Commencement. Functioning members of the Joint Education Program, Cliffedwellers have come to be viewed as participating students who in general, unspecified ways, follow the same rules as their Harvard colleagues and are just as likely to end up with a degree. Taking the same courses, the same exams as the men from the Houses, Radcliffe students evidently can be graduated too. This is indeed a change from the days when those in the Annex were considered part of the local scenery, appearing in time...
...then there is the complication that exam period or ablate data can offer. Both of these distractions have the same general effect; to wit, they dim the scribble's unflinching regard for detailed research and careful analysis, reducing him to what sometimes borders on wild guesswork...
...Saturday special luncheons will follow the annual AHC business meeting. Provost Buck, Dean David, Dean Fair of the Engineering School, and vice-Dean Livingston Hall of the Law School will speak at special group luncheons devoted to General Education, Business, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. President Conant speaks at the banquet in the evening...