Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report by David C. Poskanzer '50 that the sale of the Poskanzer Report" on Harvard Education is good...
...Some stories say it was Harvard, others both Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator, and so he did. Far too modest to name his institution after himself, he named it after his son, Laland Stanford...
...good Senator first wanted to build his college at the town of Mayfield but insisted that Mayfield become dry. When the citizens objected, he moved the site to the neighboring hamlet of Pale alto, which obligingly passed an anti-liquor law. By moving the local railroad station from Mayfield to Pale Alto, the former was easily reduced to a suburb of the latter. Pale Alto is still a dry town, and a group of bars do a wonderful business just across the town line...
...they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students are expected to show both within and without the university such respect for order, morality, personal honor, and the rights of others as is demanded of good citizens...
...evaluation of the Seminar must, of course, come from the students themselves. But it can be said, however, that no one has any doubts that the Seminar is, as in the past, making an important contribution to the understanding of Americans and America and creating a substantial amount of good will for the U. S. in the process...